Re: pg_upgrade and rsync - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_upgrade and rsync
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Msg-id 12628.1422372324@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade and rsync  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> That's certainly impossible for the system catalogs, which means you
>> have to be able to deal with relfilenode discrepancies for them, which
>> means that maintaining the same relfilenodes for user tables is of
>> dubious value.

> Why is that impossible for the system catalogs?

New versions aren't guaranteed to have the same system catalogs, let alone
the same relfilenodes for them.
        regards, tom lane



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