Hi, It seems the list of reg* types and the check for them in pg_upgrade have gone out of sync. We have the following reg* types:
SELECT typname FROM pg_type WHERE typname LIKE 'reg%' order by typname; ┌───────────────┐ │ typname │ ├───────────────┤ │ regclass │ │ regconfig │ │ regdictionary │ │ regnamespace │ │ regoper │ │ regoperator │ │ regproc │ │ regprocedure │ │ regrole │ │ regtype │ └───────────────┘ (10 rows) but pg_upgrade doesn't consider all of them: /* * While several relkinds don't store any data, e.g. views, they can * be used to define data types of other columns, so we check all * relkinds. */ res = executeQueryOrDie(conn, "SELECT n.nspname, c.relname, a.attname " "FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c, " " pg_catalog.pg_namespace n, " " pg_catalog.pg_attribute a " "WHERE c.oid = a.attrelid AND " " NOT a.attisdropped AND " " a.atttypid IN ( " " 'pg_catalog.regproc'::pg_catalog.regtype, " " 'pg_catalog.regprocedure'::pg_catalog.regtype, " " 'pg_catalog.regoper'::pg_catalog.regtype, " " 'pg_catalog.regoperator'::pg_catalog.regtype, " /* regclass.oid is preserved, so 'regclass' is OK */ /* regtype.oid is preserved, so 'regtype' is OK */ " 'pg_catalog.regconfig'::pg_catalog.regtype, " " 'pg_catalog.regdictionary'::pg_catalog.regtype) AND " " c.relnamespace = n.oid AND " " n.nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema')"); (I don't get the order here btw) ISTM when regrole and regnamespace were added, pg_upgrade wasn't considered. It turns out that regrole is safe, because we preserve user oids, but regnamespace isn't afaict. I don't think it's extremely likely that users store such reg* columns in tables, but we probably still should fix this. Greetings, Andres Freund