> Given Vadim's plans for WAL and smgr changes, at least the next two
> version updates likely won't be updatable with pg_upgrade anyway.
> However, we've seen a couple of times recently when pg_upgrade was
> useful as a recovery tool for system-table corruption, and that's why
> I'm unhappy about the prospect of just discarding it...
Agreed. I can see some cases where several types of recovery will be
harder in the new system.
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