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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_migrator to /contrib in a later 9.0 beta
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Msg-id 11811.1272814779@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg_migrator to /contrib in a later 9.0 beta  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I thought the idea was just to support migration from version N to 
>> version N+1.

> Oh, I will also support many older _source_ versions, like 8.3 and 8.4. 

Really?  Nobody else has bought into that, and it's not only pg_migrator
that would have to go out of its way to support such cases.  You're
talking about cross-multi-version compatibility of on-disk formats too.
        regards, tom lane

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