Re: pg_upgrade

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I will not enable it until everyone agrees. Are there people interested
> > in this tool being in 7.2, or who are against this tool being in 7.2?
>
> You're not going to like my opinion, but I'm going to put it forth anyway.
> We've been working on this release for half a year, and there have been
> far too many last-minute bright ideas that should have been postponed.
> The fact that someone is going to want to upgrade their installation from
> a previous release didn't just occur to us yesterday, so while this
> development effort is commendable, this is just not the time. I'm not
> even going to list any technical reasons here, you can make up your own
> list because you're looking at the code. I'm just looking at the emails
> and it gives me the creeps already.

Gives me the creeps too. :-)

I am working on it only because there isn't other stuff to do and it
isn't delaying anything because it is disabled anyway; we can keep it
for 7.3 if we wish. There was also the problem of a system catalog
change, and that got the fire moving. Also, certain commerical
distributors bug me about this from time to time so even if we don't
officially use it my guess is that some of them may enable it anyway for
their distributions.

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