Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page <[email protected]> writes: > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Right, because the catalog contents didn't change. ?Seems to me you'd > >> better teach the installers to look at PG_CONTROL_VERSION too. > > > Hmm, is there anything else that might need to be checked? > > Offhand I can think of three internal version-like numbers: > > CATALOG_VERSION_NO --- bump if initial system catalog contents would be > inconsistent with backend code > > PG_CONTROL_VERSION --- bump when contents of pg_control change > > XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC --- bump on incompatible change in WAL contents
pg_upgrade never views these in their raw format so does not need to check them. (It does look at pg_controldata text output.) -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + None of us is going to be here forever. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
