pg_upgrade dead code for pre-8.4 versions

Started by Magnus Haganderover 5 years ago4 messageshackers
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#1Magnus Hagander
magnus@hagander.net

pg_upgrade documentation says it supports upgrades from 8.4 and newer.

But there is code in there that makes a check and differs pre-8.4 from
8.4-or-newer.

ISTM that code could be cleaned out, because it should be dead based on the
initial check that we are upgrading from 8.4 or later?

This appears to be:
* The code in the analyze script (see a follow-up email on this), which
actually tries to generate a vacuum script if it's a pre-8.4 without
visibility map
* The file copy code in relfilenode.c that copies vm and fsm files only
from 8.4 and up (which should now be always)

Or am I misreading something?

//Magnus

#2Daniel Gustafsson
daniel@yesql.se
In reply to: Magnus Hagander (#1)
Re: pg_upgrade dead code for pre-8.4 versions

On 6 Oct 2020, at 11:27, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

ISTM that code could be cleaned out, because it should be dead based on the initial check that we are upgrading from 8.4 or later?

+1. Commit 2209b3923a7afe0b removed support for 8.3 so anything left checking
for pre-8.4 should be removed as a pre-8.4 source cluster couldn't be upgraded
with pg_upgrade today.

cheers ./daniel

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Daniel Gustafsson (#2)
Re: pg_upgrade dead code for pre-8.4 versions

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:40:57AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

On 6 Oct 2020, at 11:27, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

ISTM that code could be cleaned out, because it should be dead based on the initial check that we are upgrading from 8.4 or later?

+1. Commit 2209b3923a7afe0b removed support for 8.3 so anything left checking
for pre-8.4 should be removed as a pre-8.4 source cluster couldn't be upgraded
with pg_upgrade today.

OK, fixed with the attached patch, applied to all branches. There was
code that tested for >= 8.4 (useless test) or < 8.4 (dead code). I
also adjusted the version tests to be consistent.

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#4Magnus Hagander
magnus@hagander.net
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: pg_upgrade dead code for pre-8.4 versions

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 8:45 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:40:57AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

On 6 Oct 2020, at 11:27, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

ISTM that code could be cleaned out, because it should be dead based

on the initial check that we are upgrading from 8.4 or later?

+1. Commit 2209b3923a7afe0b removed support for 8.3 so anything left

checking

for pre-8.4 should be removed as a pre-8.4 source cluster couldn't be

upgraded

with pg_upgrade today.

OK, fixed with the attached patch, applied to all branches. There was
code that tested for >= 8.4 (useless test) or < 8.4 (dead code). I
also adjusted the version tests to be consistent.

Thanks!

And yeah, I noticed the inconsistency in the checking as well. Getting that
cleaned up was good.

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