Re: Proposal: In-Place upgrade concept

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: In-Place upgrade concept
Date: 2007-07-04 00:43:14
Message-ID: 15306.1183509794@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
> One thing no-one's mentioned is how we're going to deal with definitive
> incompatibilities.

I don't really think that in-place update changes that story at all.
The advice has always been "read the release notes and test your
applications before updating". The only thing that in-place update
will offer is shorter update downtime than dump/reload.

regards, tom lane

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