On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 09:45:11PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andrew Dunstan (andrew@dunslane.net) wrote:
> > So we'll lose the index definition and leave some files behind? This
> > sounds a bit messy to say the least.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > Making the user fix it seems much more sensible to me. Otherwise I
> > suspect we'll find users who get strangely surprised when they can
> > no longer find any trace of an expected index in their upgraded
> > database.
>
> Or preserve it as-is. I don't really like the 'make them fix it'
> option, as a user could run into that in the middle of a planned upgrade
> that had been tested and never had that come up.
They would get the warning during pg_upgrade --check, of course.
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