On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom Lane schrieb am 29.09.2016 um 23:10:
>> Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> writes:
>>> for some reason pg_upgrade failed on Windows 10 for me, with an error message that one specifc _vm file couldn't be copied.
>>
>> Hmm ... a _vm file would go through rewriteVisibilityMap(), which is new
>> code for 9.6 and hasn't really gotten that much testing. Its error
>> reporting is shamefully bad --- you can't tell which step failed, and
>> I wouldn't even put a lot of faith in the errno being meaningful,
>> considering that it does close() calls before capturing the errno.
>>
>> But what gets my attention in this connection is that it doesn't
>> seem to be taking the trouble to open the files in binary mode.
>> Could that lead to the reported failure? Not sure, but it seems
>> like at the least it could result in corrupted VM files.
>
> I did this on two different computers, one with Windows 10 the other with Windows 7.
> (only test-databases, so no real issue anyway)
>
> In both cases running a "vacuum full" for the table in question fixed the problem and pg_upgrade finished without problems.
Because vacuum full removes the _vm file, pg_upgrade completed job successfully.
If you still have the _vm file
("d:/Daten/db/pgdata95/base/16410/85358_vm") that lead an error, is it
possible that you check if there is '\r\n' [0d 0a] character in that
_vm file or share that _vm file with us?
Regards,
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Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
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