Re: [HACKERS] Transactional sequence stuff breaks pg_upgrade

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:14:02AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Also, I think that if we did it that way, it would be significantly
> harder to debug.  Right now, if something goes boom, you can look at
> the old and new clusters and figure out what doesn't match, but if
> pg_upgrade renumbered everything, you would no longer be able to do
> that, or at least not easily.

FYI, pg_upgrade is designed to go boom if something doesn't look right
because it can't anticipate what changes might be made to Postgres in
the future.

boom == feature!

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