Re: Upgrade issue (again). - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: Upgrade issue (again).
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Msg-id 01051712164301.00909@lowen.wgcr.org
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In response to Re: Upgrade issue (again).  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I am loathe to even bring this up, but with two messages today about
> >> it, I am going to be short and sweet:
> >> We don't have a reasonable upgrade path.

> This is one of many, many things that need work.  It happens to be a
> thing that requires a *lot* of work for, well, not so much payback
> (certainly not a benefit you'd get every day you use Postgres).
> Not to mention that it's a lot of pretty boring work.

All the above are a little too true.  And I wish, I really wish, I had a 
ready solution to make it less work on everybody concerned.

> So, personally, there are many other things that I will get to before
> I worry about this.  Sorry that my priorities don't square with yours,
> but that's how it is.  I'm not standing in the way of someone else
> taking up the problem ...

No need to apologize -- your top-notch skills are in wide demand all across 
the backend. :-)

As are the particular skills of each of the core and key hackers.

As I said, I was not really enjoying the thought of bringing it up, but I 
felt I had to do my duty to the userbase.
- --
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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