Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
>> You do realize that you'll be forcing initdbs on people if you
>> blithely add and remove such a patch?
> Yup. I was tempted to include another patch just to bump the catalog
> version in the event that it doesn't gracefully detect differing block
> sizes... haven't tested if it does that or not.
It does, and you will definitely incur my wrath if you start putting in
unnecessary platform-specific catversion hacks.
>> I think we forced an initdb for beta2 for other reasons, but I'm
>> hoping to avoid any more in the 7.4 branch.
> 1) People shouldn't be using -devel for production
No, but they might reasonably hope to segue a beta installation into
production without yet-another reload ...
regards, tom lane
