From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [DOCS] Avoiding upgrade backlash |
Date: | 2007-11-12 23:04:12 |
Message-ID: | 13606.1194908652@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> While we are right to choke down abuse of implicit casting, it might be a
> good idea to give users stronger warnings and instructions.
> I'm thinking that we need to warn everyone about:
> 1) They need to use 8.3's pg_dump, not the old version, to upgrade (this is
> always true but now doing it wrong will break a lot more users).
Uh, what makes you think that will make any difference?
> 3) If Robert gets his type-cast backport package together, the location of
> that.
The very *last* thing I want to see is encouragement of people trying to
undo that change.
regards, tom lane
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