| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: RPMS for 7.3 beta. |
| Date: | 2002-09-18 04:02:53 |
| Message-ID: | 200209180402.g8I42rF22505@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 21:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> > In short, I'm not sure why you and Oliver are so unhappy. We may not
> > have made the world better than before for upgrade scenarios, but I
> > don't think we've made it worse either.
>
> I'm unhappy because I know that I will get bug reports that I will have
> to deal with. They will take time and effort and would not be necessary
> if we had a seamless upgrade path.
This last line gave me a chuckle. It is like "software wouldn't be
necessary if computers could read people's minds". :-)
The issue with modifying the data files is that if we have to modify the
large binary data file we may as well just dump/reload the data. If we
don't change the on-disk format for 7.4 I will try again to make
pg_upgrade work.
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