Re: 7.2.3?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 7.2.3?
Date: 2002-09-29 01:23:31
Message-ID: 200209290123.g8T1NVt03541@candle.pha.pa.us
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Justin Clift wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> <snip>
> > I agree with Lamar that upgrading is a very difficult process right now.
> > Requiring huge amounts of disk space and database downtime to do
> > dump/restore is in some cases too high a price to pay. So maybe the
> > upgrading process should be observed instead of wasting time on people
> > trying to stay behind because of the price of that process.
>
> As a "simple for the user approach", would it be
> too-difficult-to-bother-with to add to the postmaster an ability to
> start up with the data files from the previous version, for it to
> recognise an old data format automatically, then for it to do the
> conversion process of the old data format to the new one before going
> any further?
>
> Sounds like a pain to create initially, but nifty in the end.

Yes, we could, but if we are going to do that, we may as well just
automate the dump/reload.

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In response to

  • Re: 7.2.3? at 2002-09-28 21:30:35 from Justin Clift

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  • Re: 7.2.3? at 2002-09-29 02:19:29 from Lamar Owen
  • Re: 7.2.3? at 2002-09-29 04:31:38 from Alvaro Herrera

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