Orhan, I think this is a reasonable approach. Supporting upgrades for older versions is time consuming and probably not worth the effort at this point. Pus you have offered a work around.
Frank On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Orhan Kislal <okis...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Dear MADlib community, > > I started working on the upgrade support for our upcoming release (MADlib > 1.10.0) and made some progress. Historically, MADlib supported upgrades > from any 1.x version. However, with every version, this task becomes more > and more time consuming. Note that all upgrades have to be tested for 6 > platforms (last 2 versions Postgres, Greenplum and HAWQ). I believe we can > drop support for upgrades for versions prior to 1.8 but I wanted to consult > with you before taking this action. This change will not disable upgrade > for older versions entirely. The upgrade might not give proper error > messages but it should still work if there are no dependencies. In > addition, it is possible to follow an upgrade chain 1.x -> 1.9.1 -> 1.10.0. > > Please let us know if this change is not reasonable. > > Thanks > > Orhan Kislal >