Re: Patent issues and 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Patent issues and 8.1
Date
Msg-id 4207A0FC.8000900@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Patent issues and 8.1  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Patent issues and 8.1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Jan Wieck wrote:

>>
>> No, as an 8.0.x is mean to be for minor changes/fixes/improvements 
>> ... 'addressing a patnt conflict', at least in ARC's case, is a major 
>> change, which is why we are looking at a short dev cycle for 8.1 ...
>
>
> Then we better make sure that 8.0 -> 8.1 does not require dump&reload. 
> However unlikely we judge the patent problem to actually bite people, 
> we cannot force 8.0.x users into a dump&reload upgrade by not 
> providing a backport when it happens.
>
>
>

There was some mention of an upgrade tool which would avoid the need for 
a dump/restore - did that idea die?

cheers

andrew


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