Re: [HACKERS] Lots 'o patches

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: dg(at)illustra(dot)com (David Gould)
Cc: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Lots 'o patches
Date: 1998-06-01 04:27:45
Message-ID: 199806010427.AAA24654@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Ooops. I guess we need to add "make a useful upgrade procedure" to our
> todo list. I am not picking on this patch, it is a problem of long standing
> but as we get into real applications it will become increasingly
> unacceptable.

You don't like the fact that upgrades require a dump/reload? I am not
sure we will ever succeed in not requiring that. We change the system
tables too much, because we are a type-neutral system.

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