Re: [HACKERS] PGUpgrade WAS: Audio interview

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PGUpgrade WAS: Audio interview
Date: 2006-02-08 20:57:07
Message-ID: 200602081257.08074.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> If such a tool were available, I don't think it'd be hard to get
> consensus on organizing our releases so that it were applicable more
> often than not. We could postpone changes that would affect user
> table contents until we'd built up a backlog that would all go into
> one release. Even a minimal commitment in that line would probably
> result in pgupgrade working for at least every other release, and
> that would be enough to make it worthwhile if you ask me ...

We could even make that our first/second dot difference in the future.
That is, 8.2 will be pg-upgradable from 8.1 but 9.0 will not.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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