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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: ZongtianHou <zongtianhou@icloud.com>
To: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: how to conveniently upgrade with specific catalog change
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:35:20 +0200
Message-ID: <0de7002c83377e9a0066dc9877c4e1892119289c.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
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On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 17:55 +0800, ZongtianHou wrote:
> I am doing some development based on postgres(8.x.x) and encountered a problem when doing upgrade. Normally, there are two ways for me to do upgrade.
>         1. when new version without catalog change, I can replace the binary and restart the cluster.
>         2. when new version with catalog change like add a column or a row to a system table, I can replace
>            the binary and turn allow_system_table_mods to all, do all the changes, then restart.
> 
> But, when new version add a new built-in datatype, like json, which will insert a row in pg_type with specific oid,
> I can not find a simple way to do this. I look up the initdb code, it run the postgres program in bootstrap mode,
> feed it data from postgres.bki file which support oid specification. Simplify the question, How can I do upgrade
> conveniently if I just need to insert one row in one system table with specific oid? Can I do it in upgrade mode
> somehow or I need to run some upgrade program?



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