On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:08:14PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > We are not writing a one-off pg_upgrade for JSON-backpatchers here.
> >
> > I tend to agree with that position, and particularly think that we
> > should not allow the not-community-approved design of the existing
> > JSON backport to drive changes to pg_upgrade. It would be better to
> > ask first if there were a different way to construct that backport
> > that would fit better with pg_upgrade.
>
> Yep.
>
> A command-line flag just seems too user-visible for this use-case, and
> too error-pone. I barely understand what is going on, particularly with
> plpython in "public" (which we don't fully even understand yet), so
> adding a command-line flag seems like the wrong direction.
FYI, I recommend to Andrew that he just set probin to NULL for the JSON
type in the old cluster before performing the upgrade.
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