On Jan 30, 2007, at 8:38 , Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>> At one point there was discussion about using changes to the first
>> digit
>> to indicate that a dump and restore was needed because of an on disk
>> format change and that changes to the second digit would indicate
>> that
>> only catalog entries have changed and that an upgrade tool (that
>> doesn't
>> exist yet) could be used to make the changes with minimal downtime.
>
> Bruno,
>
> So, to migrate from -8.1.4 to -8.2.1 I don't need to dump and
> restore?
It was *discussed*. 8.1 to 8.2 (as does any move from M.x to M.y
where x ≠ y) requires a dump and reload.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net
