Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Well, that won't work, because VACUUM can't be executed in a transaction
> >> block or function.
> >
> > Good point.
> >
> > The only bright part of this is that missing clog will throw an error so
> > we are not returning incorrect data, and hopefully people will report
> > problems to us when it happens.
> >
> > Ideally I would like to get this patch and correction code out into the
> > field in case more people run into this problem. ?I know some will, I
> > just don't know how many.
>
> ISTM we need to force a minor release once we are sure this has been
> corrected. We had also probably put out an announcement warning
> people that have already used pg_upgrade of possible data corruption.
> I'm not sure exactly what the language around that should be, but this
> does seem pretty bad.
Yep, "pretty bad" it is.
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