Re: pg_largeobject.sql script not run after upgrade

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:13:08AM +0000, Stuart Ford wrote:
> Dear community
>
> Last week we upgraded our database from 8.4 to 9.1. The upgrade seemed to
> go fine and the database seems to have been working fine ever since
> (around a week now).
>
> However, today I noticed the output from the pg_upgrade command contained
> the following:
>
> | Your installation contains large objects.
> | The new database has an additional large object
> | permission table so default permissions must be
> | defined for all large objects.  The file:
> |     /tmp/pg_largeobject.sql
> | when executed by psql by the database super-user
> | will define the default permissions.
>
> I missed this at the time, my fault, it was at the end of a stressful
> migration evening.
>
> Is it safe to run this script now, a week in to using the upgraded
> database? Can this be done while the database is live?

Sure, you can run it anytime.  Until you run it your large object
permissions might not be accurate.

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