Re: status/timeline of pglogical? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: status/timeline of pglogical?
Date
Msg-id 20160513175947.GA3267@momjian.us
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In response to Re: status/timeline of pglogical?  (Martín Marqués <martin@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 01:48:39PM -0300, Martín Marqués wrote:
> El 12/05/16 a las 12:26, Magnus Hagander escribió:
> > Can it be made to work? Sure. But I definitely agree with Robert that we
> > need "real" in place upgrades at some point.
>
> It would be a neat feature. The question is if there will be such a
> solution and if it will be or not reliable.

My point is that it will require major changes/testing for _every_ major
release because there would be substantial upgrade-only code needed for
every major release.  This is not true for pg_upgrade, and avoiding this
is part of its design.

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