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    Fix pg_dump so pg_upgrade'ing an extension with simple opfamilies works. · 6cead413
    Tom Lane authored
    As reported by Michael Feld, pg_upgrade'ing an installation having
    extensions with operator families that contain just a single operator class
    failed to reproduce the extension membership of those operator families.
    This caused no immediate ill effects, but would create problems when later
    trying to do a plain dump and restore, because the seemingly-not-part-of-
    the-extension operator families would appear separately in the pg_dump
    output, and then would conflict with the families created by loading the
    extension.  This has been broken ever since extensions were introduced,
    and many of the standard contrib extensions are affected, so it's a bit
    astonishing nobody complained before.
    
    The cause of the problem is a perhaps-ill-considered decision to omit
    such operator families from pg_dump's output on the grounds that the
    CREATE OPERATOR CLASS commands could recreate them, and having explicit
    CREATE OPERATOR FAMILY commands would impede loading the dump script into
    pre-8.3 servers.  Whatever the merits of that decision when 8.3 was being
    written, it looks like a poor tradeoff now.  We can fix the pg_upgrade
    problem simply by removing that code, so that the operator families are
    dumped explicitly (and then will be properly made to be part of their
    extensions).
    
    Although this fixes the behavior of future pg_upgrade runs, it does nothing
    to clean up existing installations that may have improperly-linked operator
    families.  Given the small number of complaints to date, maybe we don't
    need to worry about providing an automated solution for that; anyone who
    needs to clean it up can do so with manual "ALTER EXTENSION ADD OPERATOR
    FAMILY" commands, or even just ignore the duplicate-opfamily errors they
    get during a pg_restore.  In any case we need this fix.
    
    Back-patch to all supported branches.
    
    Discussion: <20228.1460575691@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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