Re: ALTER TABLE lock downgrades have broken pg_upgrade

* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > More generally, though, I wonder how we can have some test coverage
> > on such cases going forward.  Is the patch below too ugly to commit
> > permanently, and if so, what other idea can you suggest?
>
> I suggest a buildfarm animal running a custom buildfarm module that
> exercises the pg_upgrade test from every supported version to the latest
> stable and to master -- together with your proposed case that leaves a
> toastless table around for pg_upgrade to handle.

That would help greatly with pg_dump test coverage as well..  One of the
problems of trying to get good LOC coverage of pg_dump is that a *lot*
of the code is version-specific...

Thanks!

Stephen