The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> On 29 Aug 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsr d wrote:
>
> > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Miguel Omar Carvajal wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi there,
> > > > When will Postgresql 7.1 be released?
> > >
> > > right now, we're looking at October-ish for going beta, so most likely
> > > November-ish for a release ...
> >
> > Will there be a clean upgrade path this time, or
> > yet another dump-initdb-restore procedure?
>
> IMHO, upgrading a database server is like upgrading an operating system
> ... you scheduale downtime, back it all up and upgrade ...
The problem is, this doesn't play that well with upgrading the
database when upgrading the OS, like in most Linux distributions.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.