Re: Upgrading rant.

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading rant.
Date: 2003-01-04 05:39:37
Message-ID: 20030104133832.F36192-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no changes to the index or heap
> file formats. (However, I now need to update it for schemas.) However,
> the last time I worked on it for 7.2, no one was really interested in
> testing it, so it never got done. In fact, there was a bug in the
> handling of clog or wal files, but I didn't find out about it until long
> after 7.2 because no one was using it.
>
> Is pg_upgrade too hard to run? Is no one really interested in it?

I'm interested. I might look into it a bit more this release cycle as it
seems that I don't really have the time for major features like I did last
cycle.

Still looking for something straightforward to work on...

Chris

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