Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade failed with error - ERROR: column "a" in child table must be marked NOT NULL

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Ali Akbar <the(dot)apaan(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, tushar <tushar(dot)ahuja(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade failed with error - ERROR: column "a" in child table must be marked NOT NULL
Date: 2023-09-29 16:36:42
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 09:16:35AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> You mean when upgrading from an instance of 9.6 or older as c30f177 is
> not there, right?

No - while upgrading from v15 to v16. I'm not clear on how we upgraded
*to* v15 without hitting the issue, nor how the "not null" got
dropped...

> Anyway, it seems like the patch from [1] has no need to run this check
> when the old cluster's version is 10 or newer. And perhaps it should
> mention that this check could be removed from pg_upgrade once v10
> support is out of scope, in the shape of a comment.

You're still thinking of PRIMARY KEY as the only way to hit this, right?
But Ali Akbar already pointed out how to reproduce the problem with DROP
NOT NULL - which still applies to both v16 and v17.

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