Justin Clift wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > <snip> > > I agree with Lamar that upgrading is a very difficult process right now. > > Requiring huge amounts of disk space and database downtime to do > > dump/restore is in some cases too high a price to pay. So maybe the > > upgrading process should be observed instead of wasting time on people > > trying to stay behind because of the price of that process. > > As a "simple for the user approach", would it be > too-difficult-to-bother-with to add to the postmaster an ability to > start up with the data files from the previous version, for it to > recognise an old data format automatically, then for it to do the > conversion process of the old data format to the new one before going > any further? > > Sounds like a pain to create initially, but nifty in the end.
Yes, we could, but if we are going to do that, we may as well just automate the dump/reload. -- 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 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
