On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:18:15 +0100, I wrote:
>what I have hacked together yesterday afternoon:
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On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:37:56 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The system tables are not the problem. [...]
>
>Changes in the on-disk representation of user tables would be harder to
>deal with, but they are also much rarer (AFAIR we've only done that
>twice: WAL required additions to pag
Exactly. I've got something that works and is, in fact, the recommended
method for upgrading, currently.
For me to switch, I'd need something in which the developers were
confident enough to recommend.
And even to test, I'd need something more than what is available right
now.
-tfo
In articl
I think you are on to something here. Clearly dump/reload works, and
testing pg_upgrade is time-consuming, so people aren't as inclined to
jump into testing. It isn't quite like testing a bugfix or new feature.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) wrote:
> Is pg_upgrade too hard to run? Is no one really interested in it?
As an end-user, I'm very interested in pg_upgrade, but I think it's kind
of a chicken and egg problem.
Without much of a guarantee that it's fail-safe,
On Sunday 05 January 2003 23:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It is very possible that the supporting libc shared libraries
> > will be removed by the OS upgrade -- the old binaries may not even run
> > when it is critical that they do run.
> Urgh, that's a mess.
Y
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is very possible that the supporting libc shared libraries
> will be removed by the OS upgrade -- the old binaries may not even run when
> it is critical that they do run.
Urgh, that's a mess.
> If I can get older versions building again on newer syst
On Saturday 04 January 2003 21:12, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I would recommend requiring users to do the schema dump before upgrading
> the binaries, so they'd do
Nice theory. Won't work in RPM practice. I can't require the user to do
_anything_. Due to the rules of RPM's, I can't even ask the
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> ... On top of that, that's also the risk of someone being a
>> superuser. They will ALWAYS have the power to hose things. Period. As
>> such, I don't consider that to be a valid argument.
> That was my feeling too. If you can't trust the other admi
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> VACUUM FREEZE. Interesting idea. Did we have that in 7.2? I never
> thought of using it. Good idea.
IIRC, it was new in 7.2 --- but pg_upgrade goes back further than that.
I am not sure if this idea just escaped us before, or if there's a hole
in it.
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > OK, taking up the pg_upgrade banner, I think there are two things
> > missing from the current code:
>
> > 1) schema awareness -- easily fixed with some code
> > 2) need to creat clog files to match incremented xid
>
> > I can do 1,
Greg Copeland wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 22:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> > You're missing the point: I don't want to lock out everyone but the
> > super-user, I want to lock out everyone, period. Superusers are just
> > as likely to screw up pg_upgrade as anyone else.
> >
> > BTW:
> >
> > $ postmas
mlw wrote:
> I have the USA tiger census data in a database, it is over 60G with
> indexes, 30G+ of just data. Do you know how long that will take to dump
> and restore? Making one index on some of the tables takes 20 minutes.
Oh, come on. How many tigers are their in the USA? Certainly not 30
> -Original Message-
> From: mlw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 05 January 2003 16:36
> To: Bruce Momjian
> Cc: Tom Lane; Hannu Krosing; Lamar Owen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading rant.
>
> (2) Upgrade HAS HAS HAS to be fool proof.
Ag
Bruce Momjian wrote:
pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no changes to the index or heap
file formats. (However, I now need to update it for schemas.) However,
the last time I worked on it for 7.2, no one was really interested in
testing it, so it never got done. In fact, there was a bu
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 22:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> You're missing the point: I don't want to lock out everyone but the
> super-user, I want to lock out everyone, period. Superusers are just
> as likely to screw up pg_upgrade as anyone else.
>
> BTW:
>
> $ postmaster -N 1 -c superuser_reserved_connec
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> That's a good kluge, but still a kluge: it doesn't completely guarantee
>> that no one else connects while pg_upgrade is trying to do its thing.
> I was thinking about using GUC:
> #max_connections = 32
> #superuser_reserv
Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> There isn't any simple way to lock *everyone* out of the DB and still
> >> allow pg_upgrade to connect via the postmaster, and even if there were,
> >> the DBA could too easily forget
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> This would require a nontrivial amount of work (notably, we'd have to
>> be able to get pg_dump to run against a standalone backend) but I don't
>> think I'd trust pg_upgrade as a production-grade tool until its
>> invocation method
Tom Lane writes:
> This would require a nontrivial amount of work (notably, we'd have to
> be able to get pg_dump to run against a standalone backend) but I don't
> think I'd trust pg_upgrade as a production-grade tool until its
> invocation method looks like the above.
I would recommend requirin
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 09:53, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> There isn't any simple way to lock *everyone* out of the DB and still
> >> allow pg_upgrade to connect via the postmaster, and even if there were,
> >> the
Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:17, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There isn't any simple way to lock *everyone* out of the DB and still
>> allow pg_upgrade to connect via the postmaster, and even if there were,
>> the DBA could too easily forget to do it.
> I tackled thi
> pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no changes to the index or heap
> file formats. (However, I now need to update it for schemas.) However,
> the last time I worked on it for 7.2, no one was really interested in
> testing it, so it never got done. In fact, there was a bug in the
> handli
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Is pg_upgrade too hard to run? Is no one really interested in it?
All of my boxes are still on 7.2.3. Does that represent a viable test
base?
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On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 02:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> There isn't any simple way to lock *everyone* out of the DB and still
> allow pg_upgrade to connect via the postmaster, and even if there were,
> the DBA could too easily forget to do it.
I tackled this issue in the Debian upgrade scripts.
I close t
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is pg_upgrade too hard to run?
It is hard and dangerous to run (IMHO). One thing I would like to see
that would make it much safer to run is to recast it to operate through
standalone backends. That is, the idea is
bring down old postmaster
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK, taking up the pg_upgrade banner, I think there are two things
> missing from the current code:
> 1) schema awareness -- easily fixed with some code
> 2) need to creat clog files to match incremented xid
> I can do 1, and I think Tom can help me wit
On Friday 03 January 2003 18:31, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > There isn't any fundamental reason why we cannot have a pg_upgrade
> > utility; claiming that there is something wrong with how we handle
> > catalog changes misses the point. The point is that *someone would
> > have to d
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> There isn't any fundamental reason why we cannot have a pg_upgrade
> >> utility; claiming that there is something wrong with how we handle
> >> catalog changes misses the point.
>
> > pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no chang
OK, taking up the pg_upgrade banner, I think there are two things
missing from the current code:
1) schema awareness -- easily fixed with some code
2) need to creat clog files to match incremented xid
I can do 1, and I think Tom can help me with 2. Then folks can test it
and see how it works.
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> There isn't any fundamental reason why we cannot have a pg_upgrade
>> utility; claiming that there is something wrong with how we handle
>> catalog changes misses the point.
> pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no changes to the index or heap
> fi
Serguei Mokhov wrote:
> > pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no changes to the index or heap
> > file formats. (However, I now need to update it for schemas.) However,
> > the last time I worked on it for 7.2, no one was really interested in
> > testing it, so it never got done. In fact, t
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From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: January 03, 2003 6:31 PM
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > The system tables are not the problem. pg_upgrade has shown how we
> > can have cross-version upgrades no matter how much the system catalogs
> > change (a good thing too,
Tom Lane wrote:
> The system tables are not the problem. pg_upgrade has shown how we
> can have cross-version upgrades no matter how much the system catalogs
> change (a good thing too, because we cannot freeze the system catalog
> layout without bringing development to a standstill). A schema-on
On Friday 03 January 2003 15:16, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:26, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Lamar Owen Wrote
> > > THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN WITH MySQL.
> > Oh? Do they have a crystal ball that lets them predict incompatible
> > future platform changes?
> No, they just allow for the old
Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't think the main issues are with file _formats_ but rather with
> system file structures - AFAIK it is a fundamental design decision
> (arguably a design flaw ;( ) that we use system tables straight from
> page cache via C structure pointers,
The s
On Thursday 02 January 2003 19:26, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So I figured I'd roll a 7.1.3 RPMset for him to install onto Red Hat 8.
> > It was very bad. It simply would not build -- I guess it's the gcc 3
> > stuff.
> If you don't know *exactly* why it doesn't
Hannu Krosing wrote:
I don't think the main issues are with file _formats_ but rather with
system file structures - AFAIK it is a fundamental design decision
(arguably a design flaw ;( ) that we use system tables straight from
page cache via C structure pointers, even though there seems to be a
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 13:45, mlw wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Personally, I feel that if we weren't working as hard as we could on
> >features/performance/bugfixes, the upgrade issue would be moot because
> >there wouldn't *be* any reason to upgrade.
What about the standard Microsoft reason for
Tom Lane wrote:
Well, this is exactly the issue: someone would have to put substantial
amounts of time into update mechanisms and/or maintenance of obsolete
versions, as opposed to features, performance improvements, or bug
fixes.
Personally, I feel that if we weren't working as hard as we
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:26:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > replies I will rather quickly redirect to /dev/null, as it isn't Red Hat's
> > fault we can't do a sane upgrade.
>
> I think you're wasting your time trying to hold us to a higher standard
> of
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I figured I'd roll a 7.1.3 RPMset for him to install onto Red Hat 8. It
> was very bad. It simply would not build -- I guess it's the gcc 3
> stuff.
If you don't know *exactly* why it doesn't build, I don't think you
should be blaming us for it. (FWI
It's that time of year again, when I remind everyone just how difficult life
in the trenches with PostgreSQL can be, when the life in the trenches
involves upgrades. If you don't want to read about it, then please hit
DELETE in you e-mail (or nntp) client.
I'll not get too vehement this time (
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