Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade
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Msg-id 17159.1226278939@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade  (Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>)
Responses Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: [WIP] In-place upgrade  ("Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>)
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Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> I think that's pretty seriously un-desirable. It's not at all  
> uncommon for databases to stick around for a very long time and then  
> jump ahead many versions. I don't think we want to tell people they  
> can't do that.

Of course they can do that --- they just have to do it one version at a
time.

I think it's time for people to stop asking for the moon and realize
that if we don't constrain this feature pretty darn tightly, we will
have *nothing at all* for 8.4.  Again.
        regards, tom lane


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