Re: Which installation parts are backward compatible? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Which installation parts are backward compatible?
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In response to Re: Which installation parts are backward compatible?  (Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>)
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
> IMHO, we shouldn't advise packagers to do it and instead put some efforts in
> the in-place-upgrade project.

First, packagers are already doing (part of) it.  Second, I don't see 
where this in-place-upgrade is suddenly going to come from.  And third, 
even if you get in-place upgrade working, compatibility in client tools 
is still useful if you have large farms of serves to manage.


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