Tom Lane wrote:
> "Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@iol.ie> writes:
> > On 16/12/2009 15:01, Richard Broersma wrote:
> >> It looks like the future 8.5 release will be able to
> >> preform an in-place upgrade on 8.4.
>
> > Really? That would be *wonderful*. I know it's impossible to be
> > definitive, but how likely would you say this is?
>
> It's wishful thinking. We tried to have that for 8.4, and failed: there
> are so many constraints on pg_upgrade that it's not a usable mainstream
> solution. So far as I've seen there has been no work done that would
> make it any more reliable for 8.5.
I do not share Tom's conclusions.
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