Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash
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Msg-id 200711131045.04878.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Avoiding upgrade backlash  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Am Montag, 12. November 2007 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> I'm thinking that we need to warn everyone about:
> 1) They need to use 8.3's pg_dump, not the old version, to upgrade (this is
> always true but now doing it wrong will break a lot more users).

What difference would pg_dump make?

> 2) They need to check for bugs

What bugs?

> 3) If Robert gets his type-cast backport package together, the location of
> that.

Well, if you want to undo the changes, you don't need a backport package; you
can just change the cast's definition.

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Peter Eisentraut
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