Re: pg_upgrade and reg* system oid user types

On 8/3/10 2:36 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> I was wondering if users were storing text search reg* data types in
>>> their user tables.  Is this common?  Why only pre-8.3?
>>>
>>
>> The database I am using in testing 9.0 is a development database which
>> mimics our production environment as closely as it can.  This particular
>> data has been through several PostgreSQL upgrades, beginning with 7.4,
>> if I remember correctly.  The reg* data types in user tables is from
>> before tsearch functionality was added to core.
>
> OK, good to know.  I am hoping that isn't something that many people
> have in their databases.  We can fix the reg* migration, but it is too
> late for 9.0 and fixing it will require additional code in the backend
> that we would prefer to avoid.
>

I wasn't sure if it would be common.  I was able to move forward with a
dump/restore for now; I'll remove the user tables in question and run it
through pg_upgrade again later this week.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,

--
Glen Barber