| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Release cycle length |
| Date: | 2003-11-21 13:03:59 |
| Message-ID: | 20031121130359.GE26392@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:38:50AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >Yeah, I think the main issue in all this is that for real production
> >sites, upgrading Postgres across major releases is *painful*. We have
> >to find a solution to that before it makes sense to speed up the
> >major-release cycle.
>
> Well, I think one of the simplest is to do a topological sort of objects
> in pg_dump (between object classes that need it), AND regression
> testing for pg_dump :)
One of the most complex would be to avoid the need of pg_dump for
upgrades ...
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"I call it GNU/Linux. Except the GNU/ is silent." (Ben Reiter)
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