On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> > I think users would rather have the restore fail, and know right away >> > they have an issue, than to do the upgrade, and find out later that some >> > of their application queries fail and they need to run around fixing >> > them. ?(FYI, pg_upgrade would use the new pg_dump and would not fail.) >> > >> > In a way, the fact that the restore fails can be seen as a feature --- >> > they get the error before the go live on 8.4. ?(Yeah, I am serious.) >> >> Eeh, I've had this happen to me on earlier releases, and it didn't >> feel like a feature to me. Â YMMV, of course. > > Would you have preferred later application failure?
YES! It's a heck of a lot easier to fix the application than it is to doctor the dump output with vi. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
