Thanks Tom and Merlin, I removed that logic from check.c, rebuilt, and it
worked fine.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes:
> > It looks like some time after 8.3 was released that function was
> > changed from returning 'record'.  This is making me wonder if the
> > upgrade process was ever tested/verified on 8.3.
>
> Not lately, apparently :-(
>
> > I absolutely do not
> > advise doing this without taking a lot of precautions, but you might
> > force your way past that step with:
>
> I think it'd be a lot safer to modify (or just remove) the test in
> pg_upgrade.  It looks like a one-liner:
>
>    prep_status("Checking for prepared transactions");
>
>    res = executeQueryOrDie(conn,
>                            "SELECT * "
>                            "FROM pg_catalog.pg_prepared_xact()");
>
>    if (PQntuples(res) != 0)
>        pg_log(PG_FATAL, "The %s cluster contains prepared transactions\n",
>               CLUSTER_NAME(cluster));
>
> There's no reason at all for this code to not use the published API,
> which is the pg_prepared_xacts system view.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>

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