Commit 9a974cbcba did this for user
tables, but pg_upgrade treats pg_largeobject as a user table, and so
needs the same treatment. Without this fix, if you rewrite the
pg_largeobject table and then perform an upgrade with pg_upgrade, the
table will apparently be empty on the new cluster, while all of your
objects will end up with an orphaned file.
With this fix, instead of the old cluster's pg_largeobject files ending
up orphaned, the original files fro the new cluster do. That's mostly
harmless because we expect the table to be empty, but we might want
to arrange to remove the as part of the upgrade. Since we're still
debating the best way of doing that, I (rhaas) have decided to postpone
dealing with that problem and get the basic fix committed.
Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Shruthi Gowda and by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220701231413.GI13040@telsasoft.com
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