> -----Original Message----- > From: mlw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 January 2003 16:36 > To: Bruce Momjian > Cc: Tom Lane; Hannu Krosing; Lamar Owen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading rant. > > (2) Upgrade HAS HAS HAS to be fool proof.
Agreed. > No one is going to use it if you say, backup your data just > in case. I think we would be irresponsible to _not_ say that, no matter how good we thought the code was. > It > should be as trust worthy as postgresql itself. If it can't > be that it > is not a valid tool. Anything less will not be used by > professionals and > wouldn't be worth the effort. Agreed again. But I still backup my PostgreSQL boxes, and would advise anyone else to as well. Frankly I'm glad I do, especially having had yet another Fujitsu disk die the other day. Regards, Dave. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]