On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 02:01:40 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think it is inevitable that there be enough binary file changes the >pg_upgrade will not work for 7.3 --- it just seems it is only a matter >of time.
As far as it concerns changes proposed by me, I'll (try to) provide a conversion program, if that's necessary for my patches to be accepted. Then move_objfiles() in pg_update would have to call pg_convert, or whatever we call it, instead of mv. And yes, users would need twice the disk space during pg_upgrade. >One idea is to allow alternate page layouts using the heap page version >number, but that will be difficult/confusing in the code. This is a good idea, IMHO. By saying "*the* heap page version number" do you mean, that there already is such a number by now? I could not find one in bufpage.h. Should I have looked somewhere else? While we're at it, does each file start with a magic number identifying its type? AFAICS nbtree does; but I can't tell for heap and have not yet checked for rtree, gist, ... This is the reason for the "try to" in the first paragraph. Servus Manfred ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
