Is this still an open bug?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I find that pg_upgrade fails in HEAD when asked to do a 9.1-to-9.1
> upgrade of the regression database. It gets to this bit of the
> restore script:
>
> CREATE TABLE test_tbl2 OF public.test_type2;
>
> -- For binary upgrade, recreate dropped column.
> UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_attribute
> SET attlen = -1, attalign = 'i', attbyval = false
> WHERE attname = '........pg.dropped.2........'
> AND attrelid = 'test_tbl2'::pg_catalog.regclass;
> ALTER TABLE ONLY test_tbl2 DROP COLUMN "........pg.dropped.2........";
>
> and fails with
>
> ERROR: cannot drop column from typed table
>
> which probably is because test_type2 has a dropped column.
>
> Somebody has failed to think through something, because if this state of
> affairs was allowed to be created during the regression tests, why
> should we not be able to restore it?
>
> (pg_upgrade's ENUM support is broken too, but at least that one is a
> one-line fix.)
>
> regards, tom lane
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