Re: 7.1 Release Date

On 29 Aug 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsrd wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>
> > On 29 Aug 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsr d wrote:
> >
> > > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > >
> > > > On 29 Aug 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsr d wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Miguel Omar Carvajal wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi there,
> > > > > > > When will Postgresql 7.1 be released?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > right now, we're looking at October-ish for going beta, so most likely
> > > > > > November-ish for a release ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Will there be a clean upgrade path this time, or
> > > > > yet another dump-initdb-restore procedure?
> > > >
> > > > IMHO, upgrading a database server is like upgrading an operating system
> > > > ... you scheduale downtime, back it all up and upgrade ...
> > >
> > > The problem is, this doesn't play that well with upgrading the
> > > database when upgrading the OS, like in most Linux distributions.
> >
> > why not? pg_dump;pkrm old;pkadd new;load ... no?
>
> Because the system is down during this upgrade - the database isn't
> running. Also, automated dump might lead to data loss if space becomes
> an issue.

woah, I'm confused here ... are you saying that you want to upgrade the
database server at the same time, and in conjunction with, upgrading the
Operating System?