On Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 12:58 PM CDT, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2023-Sep-20, Tristan Partin wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * check_for_removed_data_type_usage
> > + *
> > + * similar to the above, but for types that were removed in 12.
> > + */
> > +static void
> > +check_for_removed_data_type_usage(ClusterInfo *cluster, const char
*datatype)
>
> Seems like you could make this more generic instead of hardcoding version
> 12, and then you could use it for any future removed types as well.
Yeah, I thought about that, and then closed that with "we can whack it
around when we need it". At this point I imagine there's very few other
datatypes we can remove from the core server, if any.
Makes complete sense to me. Patch looks good to me with one comment.
+ pg_fatal("Your installation contains the \"%s\" data type in user
tables.\n"
+ "Data type \"%s\" has been removed in PostgreSQL
version 12,\n"
+ "so this cluster cannot currently be upgraded.
You can drop the\n"
+ "problem columns, or change them to another data
type, and restart\n"
+ "the upgrade. A list of the problem columns is in
the file:\n"
+ " %s", datatype, datatype, output_path);
I would wrap the second \"%s\" in commas.
Data type, "abstime", has been...
Maybe also add a "The" to start that sentence to make it less terse. Up
to you.
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Tristan Partin
Neon (https://neon.tech)
