Re: pg_upgrade failed for 9.0 to 9.2 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_upgrade failed for 9.0 to 9.2
Date
Msg-id 20130113192815.GB3997@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade failed for 9.0 to 9.2  (Vibhor Kumar <vibhor.kumar@enterprisedb.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 02:17:34PM -0500, Vibhor Kumar wrote:
>
> On Jan 13, 2013, at 1:36 PM, AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > CREATE VIEW stats_slowest_queries AS
> >    SELECT pg_stat_activity.procpid, (('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time
> > zone - pg_stat_activity.query_start) AS execution_time,
> > pg_stat_activity.current_query FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE
> > (pg_stat_activity.current_query !~~ '<IDLE%'::text) ORDER BY
> > (('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone - pg_stat_activity.query_start)
> > DESC;
> > psql:pg_upgrade_dump_db.sql:498897: ERROR:  column pg_stat_activity.procpid
> > does not exist
> > LINE 2:     SELECT pg_stat_activity.procpid, (('now'::text)::timesta...
> >                   ^
> > It failed.
>
>
> Reason is: From postgreSQL 9.2 onwards, pg_stat_activity.procpid is renamed as pg_stat_activity.pid.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/release-9-2.html

Yes.  Pg_upgrade doesn't know about renamed system columns, so if you
had a view that referenced a renamed column, pg_upgrade wouldn't know
about that until it tried to restore the view and it failed.

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