Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > It looks like some time after 8.3 was released that function was > changed from returning 'record'. This is making me wonder if the > upgrade process was ever tested/verified on 8.3. Not lately, apparently :-( > I absolutely do not > advise doing this without taking a lot of precautions, but you might > force your way past that step with: I think it'd be a lot safer to modify (or just remove) the test in pg_upgrade. It looks like a one-liner: prep_status("Checking for prepared transactions"); res = executeQueryOrDie(conn, "SELECT * " "FROM pg_catalog.pg_prepared_xact()"); if (PQntuples(res) != 0) pg_log(PG_FATAL, "The %s cluster contains prepared transactions\n", CLUSTER_NAME(cluster)); There's no reason at all for this code to not use the published API, which is the pg_prepared_xacts system view. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general