| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0 |
| Date: | 2016-04-29 15:32:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20160429153241.GD31894@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:25:21AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Here's the features I can imagine being worth major backwards
> compatibility breaks:
...
> 5. Transparent upgrade-in-place (i.e. allowing 10.2 to use 10.1's tables
> without pg_upgrade or other modification).
Technically, this is exactly what pg_upgrade does. I think what you
really mean is for the backend binary to be able to read the system
tables and WAL files of the old clusters --- something I can't see us
implementing anytime soon.
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