Re: pg_upgrade bug found!

Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 17:06 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I want to avoid anything that requires a compile because they are hard
> > for many sites to install so TransactionIdPrecedes() is out.  We will
> > need to do this in PL/pgSQL probably.
> 
> PL/pgSQL can't see dead rows, so that would not be correct. It's
> guaranteed to be the same value you see from the heap or newer; because
> if it's not visible in the heap, it's not going to be visible in the
> toast table.

Well, frankly all we need to do is set those hint bits before the clog
gets remove, so maybe just a SELECT * would do the trick!  That and
maybe set the relfrozenxid to match the heap.

It is there now or more people would be reporting problems.

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