| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade |
| Date: | 2008-11-10 01:02:19 |
| Message-ID: | 17159.1226278939@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> I think that's pretty seriously un-desirable. It's not at all
> uncommon for databases to stick around for a very long time and then
> jump ahead many versions. I don't think we want to tell people they
> can't do that.
Of course they can do that --- they just have to do it one version at a
time.
I think it's time for people to stop asking for the moon and realize
that if we don't constrain this feature pretty darn tightly, we will
have *nothing at all* for 8.4. Again.
regards, tom lane
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