Re: A few user-level questions on Streaming Replication and pg_upgrade

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A few user-level questions on Streaming Replication and pg_upgrade
Date: 2011-07-20 18:55:34
Message-ID: CA+TgmobtSLT_NC6QW1Bb-9X_J0zsZ65LwoWdvMpmY_0_h7G5zQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> I am assuming that's a "yes" to both the directions: older -> newer , and
>> newer -> older minor releases.
>
> Yes, I believe both directions would work unless we mentioned it the
> release notes, in which cases it might not work, or might work older to
> newer but newer to older.

I don't see how this would get broken in a minor release. We'd have
to change the WAL format or the tuple format, which is definitely not
minor release material.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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