On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:07:26AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> This is a new bug in PG12. When you have a database with an OID above
> INT32_MAX (signed), then pg_basebackup fails thus:
Yep. Introduced by 6b9e875.
> pg_basebackup: error: could not get write-ahead log end position from
> server: ERROR: value "3000000000" is out of range for type integer
>
> The cause appears to be commit 6b9e875f7286d8535bff7955e5aa3602e188e436.
>
> A possible fix is attached. An alternative to using OidInputFunctionCall()
> would be exporting something like oidin_subr().
I think that you would save yourself from a lot of trouble if you do
the latter with a subroutine. Not quite like that based on the
process context where the call is done, but remember 21f428eb..
--
Michael
