Re: State of support for back PG branches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: State of support for back PG branches
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Msg-id 4338C591.8060103@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: State of support for back PG branches  (Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>)
Responses Re: State of support for back PG branches
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>A nice pg_upgrade utility would make a big difference. Clearly an
>in-place upgrade is possible, but maintaining is hard. There are two
>broad ways of running a pg_upgrade project - one that is entirely
>independent of the main codebase and one that puts requirements on the
>main codebase developers ("if you change $foo you provide code to
>translate old $foo to new $foo"). Any feel for the relative difficulty
>of the two approaches? And how much push-back there'd be on the latter?
>  
>
You can do in place upgrades with Slony-I and Mammoth Replicator.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>Cheers,
>  Steve
>
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