On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:10:20AM -0400, Kenneth Downs wrote: > Regardless of whether a package is commercial or free, it strikes me as > counter to the very soul of programming to build in a burden that > increases with the user's use of the program, threatening even to tip > the balance altogether away from its use. This seems to be the very > kind of feature that you want to programmatically control precisely > because it is non-trivial.
That doesn't change the fact that it's a really hard problem. In-place upgrades would require lots of safety checks because otherwise you might end up with a cluster that's not readable by any version. OTOH, you have something like slony which you can use to upgrade to newer versions without any downtime at all. With a solution like that working right now, why would people spend effort on making in-place upgrades work? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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