On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 04:06:52PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> BTW, how is one supposed to "manually upgrade databases that use
> contrib/isb"?  This part is not very clear.

I thought you would dump out databases that use isn, drop those
databases, use pg_upgrade for the remaining databases, then load the
dumped database.  Attached is a patch that improves the wording.

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diff --git a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c
index ff7057db73..e5f1c64799 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_upgrade/check.c
@@ -887,9 +887,9 @@ check_for_isn_and_int8_passing_mismatch(ClusterInfo *cluster)
 		pg_fatal("Your installation contains \"contrib/isn\" functions which rely on the\n"
 				 "bigint data type.  Your old and new clusters pass bigint values\n"
 				 "differently so this cluster cannot currently be upgraded.  You can\n"
-				 "manually upgrade databases that use \"contrib/isn\" facilities and remove\n"
-				 "\"contrib/isn\" from the old cluster and restart the upgrade.  A list of\n"
-				 "the problem functions is in the file:\n"
+				 "manually dump databases that use \"contrib/isn\" facilities in the old\n"
+				 "cluster, drop them, restart the upgrade, and restore them laster.  A\n"
+				 "list of the problem functions is in the file:\n"
 				 "    %s\n\n", output_path);
 	}
 	else

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