Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > After a quick chat with Bruce it was determined that we don't freeze
> > anything (it would be horrid for downtime if we did so in pg_migrator;
> > and it would be useless if ran anywhere else). What we do is migrate
> > pg_clog from the old cluster to the new. So never mind that hypothesis.
> >
> > Bruce noticed that the pg_dump/pg_migrator combo is failing to restore
> > pg_largeobject's relfrozenxid. We're not sure how this is causing the
> > errors Jamie is seeing, because what I think should happen is that scans
> > of the table should fail with failures to open pg_clog files
> > such-and-such, but not missing tuples ...
>
> Jamie, is it possible for you to apply the attached patch to the 8.4
> server, install the new pg_dump, and run the test again to see if
> pg_largeobject is fixed? This patch properly sets the relfrozenxid in
> the system tables for each database.
I have applied the attached patch to have pg_dump restore
pg_largeobject.relfrozenxid in binary upgrade mode; backpatched to
8.4.X.
This doesn't fix the reported problem, but it is still a bug.
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Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
Index: src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c,v
retrieving revision 1.540
diff -c -c -r1.540 pg_dump.c
*** src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c 2 Jul 2009 21:34:32 -0000 1.540
--- src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c 20 Jul 2009 20:51:34 -0000
***************
*** 34,39 ****
--- 34,40 ----
#include "access/sysattr.h"
#include "catalog/pg_cast.h"
#include "catalog/pg_class.h"
+ #include "catalog/pg_largeobject.h"
#include "catalog/pg_proc.h"
#include "catalog/pg_trigger.h"
#include "catalog/pg_type.h"
***************
*** 1739,1744 ****
--- 1740,1746 ----
frozenxid);
appendStringLiteralAH(creaQry, datname, AH);
appendPQExpBuffer(creaQry, ";\n");
+
}
appendPQExpBuffer(delQry, "DROP DATABASE %s;\n",
***************
*** 1764,1769 ****
--- 1766,1816 ----
NULL, /* Dumper */
NULL); /* Dumper Arg */
+ /*
+ * pg_largeobject comes from the old system intact, so set
+ * its relfrozenxid.
+ */
+ if (binary_upgrade)
+ {
+ PGresult *lo_res;
+ PQExpBuffer loFrozenQry = createPQExpBuffer();
+ PQExpBuffer loOutQry = createPQExpBuffer();
+ int i_relfrozenxid;
+
+ appendPQExpBuffer(loFrozenQry, "SELECT relfrozenxid\n"
+ "FROM pg_catalog.pg_class\n"
+ "WHERE oid = %d;\n",
+ LargeObjectRelationId);
+
+ lo_res = PQexec(g_conn, loFrozenQry->data);
+ check_sql_result(lo_res, g_conn, loFrozenQry->data, PGRES_TUPLES_OK);
+
+ if (PQntuples(lo_res) != 1)
+ {
+ write_msg(NULL, "dumpDatabase(): could not find pg_largeobject.relfrozenxid\n");
+ exit_nicely();
+ }
+
+ i_relfrozenxid = PQfnumber(lo_res, "relfrozenxid");
+
+ appendPQExpBuffer(loOutQry, "\n-- For binary upgrade, set pg_largeobject relfrozenxid.\n");
+ appendPQExpBuffer(loOutQry, "UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class\n"
+ "SET relfrozenxid = '%u'\n"
+ "WHERE oid = %d;\n",
+ atoi(PQgetvalue(lo_res, 0, i_relfrozenxid)),
+ LargeObjectRelationId);
+ ArchiveEntry(AH, nilCatalogId, createDumpId(),
+ "pg_largeobject", NULL, NULL, "",
+ false, "pg_largeobject", SECTION_PRE_DATA,
+ loOutQry->data, "", NULL,
+ NULL, 0,
+ NULL, NULL);
+
+ PQclear(lo_res);
+ destroyPQExpBuffer(loFrozenQry);
+ destroyPQExpBuffer(loOutQry);
+ }
+
/* Dump DB comment if any */
if (g_fout->remoteVersion >= 80200)
{
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