On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > I'm not going to rehash the arguments I have made before; they are all
> > archived. Suffice to say you are simply wrong. The number of
> > complaints over the years shows that there IS a need.
>
>
> I at no point suggested that there was not a need. I only suggest that
> the need may not be as great as some suspect or feel. To be honest -- if
> your arguments were the "need" that everyone had... it would have been
> implemented some how. It hasn't yet which would suggest that the number
> of people that have the "need" at your level is not as great as the
> number of people who have different "needs" from PostgreSQL.
Just to add to this ... Bruce *did* start pg_upgrade, but I don't recall
anyone else looking at extending it ... if the *need* was so great,
someone would have step'd up and looked into adding to what was already
there ...