Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > OK, then the simplest fix, once you modify pg_dumpall, would be to
> > > modify pg_upgrade to remove reference to the postgres database in the
> > > new cluster if it doesn't exist in the old one. ?That would allow
> > > pg_upgrade to maintain a 1-1 matching of databases in the old and new
> > > cluster --- it allows the change to be locallized without affecting much
> > > code.
> >
> > That sounds just fine. +1.
>
> FYI, I don't want to modify pg_dumpall myself because I didn't want to
> have pg_upgrade forcing a pg_dumpall change that applies to
> non-binary-upgrade dumps. pg_dumpall is too important. I am fine if
> someone else does it, though. :-)
If you want crazy, you could suppress the "\connect postgres" line only
in --binary-upgrade dumps, but that seems to error-prone because then
only --binary-upgrade dumps are exercising that behavior.
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