Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade
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Msg-id 3FDD33E1.2090202@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Yeah.  Don't you think that should preserve comments on large objects,
> now that such comments are alleged to be a supported facility?
> 
> 
>>How does pg_dump dump the blobs?
> 
> 
> It dumps them, reloads them (which causes them to be assigned new OIDs)
> and then runs around and tries to fix up references to them to have the
> correct OIDs.  Possibly that last pass could be extended to include
> pg_description.  Not sure of details though.

OK, I'll look into it.

Chris



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