On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Yes, you remember well. I will have to find a different way for
>> pg_upgrade to call a no-op ALTER TABLE, which is fine.
>
> Looking at the ALTER TABLE options, I am going to put this check in a
> !IsBinaryUpgrade block so pg_upgrade can still use its trick.
-1, that's really ugly.
Maybe the right solution is to add a form of ALTER TABLE that is
specifically defined to do only this check. This is an ongoing need,
so that might not be out of line.
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