Re: Did we really want to force an initdb in beta2?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Did we really want to force an initdb in beta2?
Date: 2010-06-03 22:21:53
Message-ID: 20697.1275603713@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
> On Jun 3, 2010, at 19:00 , Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe we should just get rid of the hint.

> FYI, Robert Haas suggested the same in the thread that lead to this patch being applied. The arguments against doing that is that a real crash during recovery *is* something to be quite alarmed about.

After some discussion among core we're going to leave it as-is. Anybody
who doesn't want to initdb for beta2 can test out pg_upgrade ;-)

regards, tom lane

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