Re: Which installation parts are backward compatible?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Which installation parts are backward compatible?
Date: 2009-02-13 09:08:48
Message-ID: 499538A0.7090509@gmx.net
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
> IMHO, we shouldn't advise packagers to do it and instead put some efforts in
> the in-place-upgrade project.

First, packagers are already doing (part of) it. Second, I don't see
where this in-place-upgrade is suddenly going to come from. And third,
even if you get in-place upgrade working, compatibility in client tools
is still useful if you have large farms of serves to manage.

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