Re: pg_upgrade

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > ... I'm just looking at the emails
> > and it gives me the creeps already.
>
> FWIW, I would *never* trust a production database to pg_upgrade in its
> current state; it's untested and can't possibly get enough testing
> before release to be trustable. But if Bruce wants to work on it,
> where's the harm? The discussions I've had with him over the past
> couple days are more than valuable enough for development of a future
> bulletproof pg_upgrade, whether or not the current script ever helps
> anyone.
>
> The only mistake we could make here is to advertise pg_upgrade as
> reliable. Which we will not do.

Some people have large, non-critical databases they want to upgrade to
7.2. I can imagine some people using pg_upgrade for those cases.

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