On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:36:34PM +0000, Robert Haas wrote:
> pg_upgrade: Convert old visibility map format to new format.
> 
> Commit a892234f830e832110f63fc0a2afce2fb21d1584 added a second bit per
> page to the visibility map, but pg_upgrade has been unaware of it up
> until now.  Therefore, a pg_upgrade from an earlier major release of
> PostgreSQL to any commit preceding this one and following the one
> mentioned above would result in invalid visibility map contents on the
> new cluster, very possibly leading to data corruption.  This plugs
> that hole.
> 
> Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by Jeff Janes, Bruce Momjian, Simon Riggs,
> Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, me, and others.

I have tested the current git trees of all supported versions of
Postgres in all possible pg_upgrade combinations and they all worked
perfectly.

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