Noah Misch <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 08:24:36PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> Agreed. I'll take care of both and we'll make sure the new role
>> attributes being added will do the same for upgrades also.
> That would make pg_dumpall less faithful for every role other than the
> bootstrap superuser, a net loss. It would be defensible to do this for
> BOOTSTRAP_SUPERUSERID only.
Huh? It seems difficult to argue that it's "less faithful" to do this
when the previous version didn't have the concept at all.
> Even there I prefer the current behavior; this is
> just another of many fine details that pg_upgrade reproduces more precisely
> than other pg_dumpall/pg_dump invocations.
So far as catalog contents are concerned, pg_upgrade *is* pg_dumpall.
regards, tom lane
