Re: State of Beta 2

From: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: State of Beta 2
Date: 2003-09-20 01:06:44
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:06:39 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
wrote:
>Perhaps you should go back and study what
>pg_upgrade actually did.

Thanks for the friendly invitation. I did that.

> It needed only minimal assumptions about the
>format of either old or new catalogs. The reason is that it mostly
>relied on portability work done elsewhere (in pg_dump, for example).

I was hoping that you had a more abstract concept in mind when you
said pg_upgrade; not that particular implementation. I should have
been more explicit that I'm not a friend of that pg_dump approach, cf.
my other mail.

>> Rod's adddepend is a good example.
>I don't think it's representative.

>> ... I wouldn't call it perfect
>... in other words, it doesn't work and can't be made to work.

Hmm, "not perfect" == "can't be made to work". Ok. If you want to
see it this way ...

Servus
Manfred

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