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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Invalid pg_upgrade error message during live check
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYqmfeuVkWCOSB=Rrt9ctnLDFEbbkvH08NzD-vAbMhq5A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Invalid pg_upgrade error message during live check  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Invalid pg_upgrade error message during live check
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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.

-- 
Robert Haas
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