Re: Pains in upgrading to 8.3

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com>, paul rivers <rivers(dot)paul(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pains in upgrading to 8.3
Date: 2008-02-19 08:48:23
Message-ID: 20080219084823.GB3091@svr2.hagander.net
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:35:11PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian escribió:
> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> > > For the case of upgrading, it wouldn't work. But there are certainly
> > > other cases where it would help. Say from your central pgadmin console
> > > administering 10 servers from 3 different major release trees :-(
>
> What's wrong with providing statically-linked pg_dump-8.2, pg_dump-8.3
> and so on, and asking the user which one to use (depending on the target
> server version)?

Other than the much-increased work in building things, probabliy nothing.
(The package would be noticably larger as well, of course, but that
shuouldn't be a big problem today).

//Magnus

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