On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:48:48PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > The initdb is not always a bad thing. In reality the idea of just > being able to "upgrade" is not a good thing. Just think about the > differences between 7.2.3 and 7.3.x... The most annoying (although > appropriate) one being that integers can no longer be ''.
But it would be much easier if one wasn't forced to create a dump and then restore it. One would still need to change the applications, but that doesn't force downtime. > If we provide the ability to do a wholesale upgrade many things would > just break. Heck even the connection protocol is different for 7.4. But the new client libpq _can_ talk to older servers. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) FOO MANE PADME HUM ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])