Re: erroneous restore into pg_catalog schema

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: erroneous restore into pg_catalog schema
Date: 2013-05-13 18:43:55
Message-ID: 20130513184355.GE1066@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-05-13 14:35:47 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I think we shouldn't check IsPostmasterEnvironment here but instead
> > IsBootstrapProcessingMode() since we otherwise can generate oids below
> > FirstNormalObjectId in --single mode.
>
> That is, in fact, exactly what we want to do and must do during initdb.
> If you change anything about this code you'll break the way the
> post-bootstrap initdb steps assign OIDs.

Well, then we should use some other way to discern from those both
cases. If you currently execute CREATE TABLE or something else in
--single user mode the database cannot safely be pg_upgraded anymore
since the oids might already be used in a freshly initdb'ed cluster in
the new version.
Or am I missing something here?

DROPing and recreating a new index in --single mode isn't that
uncommon...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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