Re: Did we really want to force an initdb in beta2?

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Did we really want to force an initdb in beta2?
Date: 2010-06-04 11:00:27
Message-ID: AANLkTinNiwP_hpltx25EnD_fW__idDiRZ6I1jKvpJlQU@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
>> On Jun 3, 2010, at 19:00 , Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Maybe we should just get rid of the hint.
>
>> FYI, Robert Haas suggested the same in the thread that lead to this patch being applied. The arguments against doing that is that a real crash during recovery *is* something to be quite alarmed about.
>
> After some discussion among core we're going to leave it as-is.  Anybody
> who doesn't want to initdb for beta2 can test out pg_upgrade ;-)

Shouldn't we have bumped the catversion? The installers can't tell
that beta1 clusters won't work with beta2 :-(

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Dave Page
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