On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 12:01:37AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> > The most robust, but not trivial, approach seems to be to prevent toast >> > table creation if there wasn't a set_next_toast_pg_class_oid(). Then, >> > after all relations are created, iterate over all pg_class entries that >> > possibly need toast tables and recheck if they now might need one. >> >> Wow, that is going to be kind of odd in that there really isn't a good >> way to create toast tables except perhaps add a dummy TEXT column and >> remove it. There also isn't an easy way to not create a toast table, >> but also find out that one was needed. I suppose we would have to >> insert some dummy value in the toast pg_class column and come back later >> to clean it up. >> >> I am wondering what the probability of having a table that didn't need a >> toast table in the old cluster, and needed one in the new cluster, and >> there being an oid collision. >> >> I think the big question is whether we want to go down that route. > > Here is an updated patch. It was a little tricky because if the > mismatched non-toast table is after the last old relation, you need to > test differently and emit a different error message as there is no old > relation to complain about. > > As far as the reusing of oids, we don't set the oid counter until after > the restore, so any new unmatched toast table would given a very low > oid. Since we restore in oid order, for an oid to be assigned that was > used in the old cluster, it would have to be a very early relation, so I > think that reduces the odds considerably. I am not inclined to do > anything more to avoid this until I see an actual error report --- > trying to address it might be invasive and introduce new errors.
That sounds pretty shaky from where I sit. I wonder if the pg_upgrade_support module should have a function create_toast_table_if_needed(regclass) or something like that. Or maybe just create_any_missing_toast_tables(), iterating over all relations. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers