Re: pg_upgrade and epoch

On 2014-09-11 16:58:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:24:17AM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> >> I think the reason nobody's responding is because nobody has anything
> >> significant to add. It's a behavior change from not-working to
> >> working. Why wouldn't it be backpatched?
> 
> > OK, Greg seems to be passionate about this.  Does anyone _object_ to my
> > back-patching the epoch preservation fix through 9.3.  Tom?
> 
> Not I.  This is a data-loss bug fix, no?  Why would we not back-patch it?

Also, what possible reason could there be for preservation to be
problematic? Epoch overflow maybe :P

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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