Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> The initdb is not always a bad thing. In reality the idea of just being
> able to "upgrade" is not a good thing. Just think about the differences
> between 7.2.3 and 7.3.x... The most annoying (although appropriate) one
> being that integers can no longer be ''.
> If we provide the ability to do a wholesale upgrade many things would
> just break. Heck even the connection protocol is different for 7.4.
Strawmen. If we provide a good upgrade capability, we would just simply
have to think about upgrades before changing features like that. The
upgrade code could be cognizant of these sorts of things; and shoud be,
in fact.
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Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
