Re: [ADMIN] Problems with enums after pg_upgrade

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Bernhard Schrader wrote:
> Hello together,
>
> last thursday I upgraded one of our 9.0.6 postgresql servers to
> 9.2.2 with pg_upgrade. So far everything seemed to work but we now
> discover problems with the enum types. If we run one specific query
> it breaks all time with such an error message:
>
> ERROR: invalid internal value for enum: 520251
>
> if this number should represent the enumtypid it is not existing
> anymore in pg_enum.
>
> How could i solve this problem? should we regenerate all enums? or
> what could we do?
> Hopefully anyone has a clue, google doesn't seem to be the ressource
> for this problem.

We seriously tested the enum code so I am pretty confused why this is
failing. If you do pg_dump --binary-upgrade --schema-only, do you see
that a number like this being defined just before the enum is added?

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