| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: State of Beta 2 |
| Date: | 2003-09-13 04:29:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20030913042911.GC2081@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:48:48PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> The initdb is not always a bad thing. In reality the idea of just
> being able to "upgrade" is not a good thing. Just think about the
> differences between 7.2.3 and 7.3.x... The most annoying (although
> appropriate) one being that integers can no longer be ''.
But it would be much easier if one wasn't forced to create a dump and
then restore it. One would still need to change the applications, but
that doesn't force downtime.
> If we provide the ability to do a wholesale upgrade many things would
> just break. Heck even the connection protocol is different for 7.4.
But the new client libpq _can_ talk to older servers.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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