Re: pg_upgrade docs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_upgrade docs
Date
Msg-id 201005192039.o4JKdWD05614@momjian.us
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In response to pg_upgrade docs  (Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>)
Responses Re: pg_upgrade docs
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> While looking at the docs for pg_upgrade I noticed some stuff that the
> following patch attempts to at least partly address.
> There is quite some confusion going on between using "Postgres" and
> PostgreSQL, I changed that to the later because that is how we spell the
> productname in all the other parts of the docs, also added some further
> markups and crossreferences to other docs.

Applied.

> Stuff that seems to need further work is more or less the "limitations"
> section, I don't think there are only issues when upgrade from 8.3 but
> also from 8.4 (though not as much iirc) there is also the rather bold

There are some limitations when migrating from 8.3 to 8.4, but not when
migrating from 8.3 to 9.0, because we added a feature to 9.0.  Can you
give a specific example?

> "we will support upgrades from every snapshot and alpha release" which
> seems very optimistic...

Well, I didn't say "every".

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