Re: Invalid pg_upgrade error message during live check - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Invalid pg_upgrade error message during live check
Date
Msg-id 20180108232621.GA1021@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Invalid pg_upgrade error message during live check  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Invalid pg_upgrade error message during live check
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Jan  8, 2018 at 10:43:00AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan  5, 2018 at 04:58:39PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Pg_upgrade is able to run in --check mode when the old server is still
> >> running.  Unfortunately, all supported versions of pg_upgrade generate
> >> an incorrect (but harmless) "failure" message when doing this:
> >
> > Based on recent discussions, I am thinking we would just fix this in PG
> > 10 and HEAD and leave the harmless error message in the other branches,
> > right?
> 
> Hmm, not sure why you say that.  If the message is buggy and the fix
> isn't too risky, might as well fix it all the way back.

OK, I will do that then.  The message is harmless, but confusing, so I
would like to fix it, but it requires changing the API of two functions.
I will see how cleanly it applies back to 9.3 and act accordingly.

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