Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 21:40, Tom Lane wrote: > > In short, I'm not sure why you and Oliver are so unhappy. We may not > > have made the world better than before for upgrade scenarios, but I > > don't think we've made it worse either. > > I'm unhappy because I know that I will get bug reports that I will have > to deal with. They will take time and effort and would not be necessary > if we had a seamless upgrade path.
This last line gave me a chuckle. It is like "software wouldn't be necessary if computers could read people's minds". :-) The issue with modifying the data files is that if we have to modify the large binary data file we may as well just dump/reload the data. If we don't change the on-disk format for 7.4 I will try again to make pg_upgrade work. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
