Re: Upgrading rant. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Upgrading rant.
Date
Msg-id 20030104133832.F36192-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Upgrading rant.  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no changes to the index or heap
> file formats.  (However, I now need to update it for schemas.)  However,
> the last time I worked on it for 7.2, no one was really interested in
> testing it, so it never got done.  In fact, there was a bug in the
> handling of clog or wal files, but I didn't find out about it until long
> after 7.2 because no one was using it.
>
> Is pg_upgrade too hard to run?  Is no one really interested in it?

I'm interested.  I might look into it a bit more this release cycle as it
seems that I don't really have the time for major features like I did last
cycle.

Still looking for something straightforward to work on...

Chris




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