Re: ltree_gist indexes broken after pg_upgrade from 12 to 13 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alexander Korotkov
Subject Re: ltree_gist indexes broken after pg_upgrade from 12 to 13
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Msg-id CAPpHfdvDAgjFO2hxqy=c67kD8FDNa63Bkfqi3zm-pU9ato3wcA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: ltree_gist indexes broken after pg_upgrade from 12 to 13  (Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: ltree_gist indexes broken after pg_upgrade from 12 to 13  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 2:05 AM Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 8:28 PM Tomas Vondra
> <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > On 3/6/22 08:09, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> > > Sorry for this terrible oversight by me.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 10:13 AM Tomas Vondra
> > > <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > >> On 3/4/22 23:09, Nikita Glukhov wrote:
> > >>> On 04.03.2022 23:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > >>>>> On 3/4/22 20:29, Nikita Glukhov wrote:
> > >>>>>> So, we probably have corrupted indexes that were updated since such
> > >>>>>> "incomplete" upgrade of ltree.
> > >>>>> IIRC pg_upgrade is not expected to upgrade extensions - it keeps the
> > >>>>> installed version of the extension, and that's intentional.
> > >>>> Yeah, exactly.  But this opens up an additional consideration we
> > >>>> have to account for: whatever we do needs to work with either 1.1
> > >>>> or 1.2 SQL-level versions of the extension.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>                      regards, tom lane
> > >>>
> > >>> It becomes clear that ltree upgrade 1.1 => 1.2 is broken, the problem
> > >>> is not so much related to PG12 => PG13+ upgrades.
> > >
> > > So, it seems that ltree 1.1 in PG13+ is incompatible with ltree on
> > > PG12 and ltree 1.2 on PG13+.  And there are many scenarios involving.
> > >
> > > It seems too difficult to identify all the broken cases in the release
> > > notes.  What about applying a patch and asking all ltree users to
> > > reindex their indexes?
> > >
> >
> > Yeah. I think this is getting so complicated that there's little chance
> > we'd be able to clearly explain when to reindex.
>
> Good.  The revised patch is attached.  Instead of adding argument to
> LTREE_GET_ASIGLEN(), it introduces separate LTREE_GET_SIGLEN() and
> LTREE_GET_ASIGLEN() macros.

No feedback yet.  I'm going to push this if no objections.

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Regards,
Alexander Korotkov



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