Re: The case for version number inflation

* Selena Deckelmann (selena(at)chesnok(dot)com) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> > And you're probably aware of the issue with Amazon Linux, where they
> > don't distinguish between version 9.1 and 9.2 and thus corrupt people's
> > databases.
>
> This seems like a case to be made for Postgres to respond more elegantly to
> this situation, possibly by converting blocks on the fly to the newer
> version of the database for writes and being ok with reading previous
> versions of blocks, or simply not writing data to the filesystem when the
> versions don't match.

It'd certainly be wonderful, but we're simply not there yet. :) This
does not excuse poor packaging- that's what the packaging is supposed to
be there to address.

Thanks,

Stephen