Patch applied.
I did not backpatch to 9.0 because you can't migrate from 9.0 to 9.0
with the same catversion (because of tablespace conflict), and a pre-9.0
migration to 9.0 has not large object permissions to migrate. In
summary, it didn't seem worth the risk, and was hard to test.
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >> That isn't going to work. At least not unless you start trying to force
> > > >> roles to have the same OIDs in the new installation.
> > >
> > > > If so I can use the CREATE ROLE ... SYSID clause when doing a binary
> > > > upgrade.
> > >
> > > Oh, I had forgotten we still had that wart in the grammar.
> > > It doesn't actually work:
> > >
> > > else if (strcmp(defel->defname, "sysid") == 0)
> > > {
> > > ereport(NOTICE,
> > > (errmsg("SYSID can no longer be specified")));
> > > }
> > >
> > > Not sure if it's better to try to make that work again than to add
> > > another hack in pg_upgrade_support. On the whole that's a keyword
> > > I'd rather see us drop someday soon.
> >
> > OK, let me work on adding it to pg_upgrade_support. Glad you saw this.
>
> I have fixed the bug by using pg_upgrade_support. It was a little
> complicated because you need to install the pg_upgrade_support functions
> in the super-user database so it is available when you create the users
> in the first step of restoring the pg_dumpall file.
>
> I am afraid we have to batckpatch this to fix to 9.0 for 9.0 to 9.0
> upgrades. It does not apply when coming from pre-9.0 because there was
> no pg_largeobject_metadata.
>
> For testing I did this:
>
> CREATE DATABASE lo;
> \c lo
> SELECT lo_import('/etc/motd');
> \set loid `psql -qt -c 'select loid from pg_largeobject' lo`
> CREATE ROLE user1;
> CREATE ROLE user2;
> -- force user2 to have a different user id on restore
> DROP ROLE user1;
> GRANT ALL ON LARGE OBJECT :loid TO user2;
>
> The fixed version shows:
>
> lo=> select * from pg_largeobject_metadata;
> lomowner | lomacl
> ----------+------------------------------------------
> 10 | {postgres=rw/postgres,user2=rw/postgres}
> (1 row)
>
> In the broken version, 'user2' was a raw oid, obviously wrong.
>
> Fortunately this was found during my testing and not reported as a bug
> by a pg_upgrade user.
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