On ons, 2011-08-10 at 18:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Byrne <dbyrne@mdb.com> writes:
> > Attached is a patch that skips orphaned temporary relations in pg_upgrade if they are lingering around. It works
for9.0 -> 9.1 upgrades, however I wasn't able to tell when pg_class.relistemp was added so if it was unavailable in
versionsprior to 9.0 an additional check will have to be added.
>
> I'm inclined to think the correct fix is to revert the assumption that
> the old and new databases contain exactly the same number of tables ...
> that seems to have a lot of potential failure modes besides this one.
It's basically checking whether pg_dump -s worked. That doesn't seem
like a good use of time.