Re: missing toast table for pg_policy

On 02/16/2018 05:07 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2018-02-16 16:56:15 -0500, Joe Conway wrote:
>> Looking at the issue, the problem seems to be missing toast table for
>> pg_policy. Also attached is a one line patch. It isn't clear to me
>> whether this is a candidate for backpatching.
> 
> Don't think it is - it'd not take effect on already initdb'ed clusters.

Yep, knew that, but...

> If problematic for < master users I think you'll have to restart cluster
> with allow_system_table_mods, manually create/drop toasted column. IIRC
> that should add a toast table even after dropping.

I wasn't sure if we would want to backpatch and put the manual procedure
steps into the release notes.

Joe

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