Обсуждение: Upgrading DBs with type=citext from 9.0.5 to 9.1.1 using pg_upgrade and create extension

Hi,

Rudolf van der Leeden <rudolf.vanderleeden@scoreloop.com> writes:
> we are running into a problem with the following upgrade scenario:

> Current DB (9.0.5, 300G) is using a table with 2 citext columns and indexes on both columns.
> Using pg_upgrade to move from 9.0.5 to 9.1.1 works OK and is done (without the ANALYZE) in 30s.
> Because we are using the citext type, the following statement has been executed after the upgrade:
>    CREATE EXTENSION citext FROM unpackaged

> SELECTs are now possible, but we are having problems with UPDATE:
>    ERROR:  could not determine which collation to use for string comparison

Hmm.  I think the citext update script is missing a couple of things.
Try this after the CREATE EXTENSION step:

update pg_attribute set attcollation = 100 where atttypid = 'citext'::regtype;

It looks like pg_index.indcollation is an issue too, but the least
fragile way to fix that might be to drop and recreate indexes on
citext columns.

            regards, tom lane

I wrote:
> Rudolf van der Leeden <rudolf.vanderleeden@scoreloop.com> writes:
>> we are running into a problem with the following upgrade scenario:

> Hmm.  I think the citext update script is missing a couple of things.

This patch seems to fix the case for me:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=94bdb198813b079467d7ed07c6f72ac896da7161

If you have an already-upgraded database, you can just run the
additional commands by hand.

            regards, tom lane

Hi Tom,

YES. This patch fixes the citext upgrade problem. With the modified  share/extension/citext--unpackaged--1.0.sql  file
just run:  CREATE EXTENSION citext FROM unpackaged;  and the table and indexes can be used as with 9.0.5.

Thanks for your quick help.
Regards,
-Rudolf.