In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) wrote:
> Is pg_upgrade too hard to run? Is no one really interested in it? As an end-user, I'm very interested in pg_upgrade, but I think it's kind of a chicken and egg problem. Without much of a guarantee that it's fail-safe, I'm not inclined to test it. As kind of a hamstrung DBA, I don't have a lot of time to do mock-upgrading of my postgres installations. I would imagine there are plenty of DBAs in the user community in this position: wanting a good upgrade utility but not having the time/inclination to do testing on what is available. For commercial products, QA is usually internal. One of the slight drawbacks to the free software community is that more of the burden of QA is placed on the at-large community of users. All this being said, if an outline were posted of what steps to take to test pg_upgrade and ensure that everything were working properly, I'd be more inclined to take the plunge. As it is, I'd have to do a fair amount of research on my own to make sure nothing broke. And that is the step I don't have time for. -tfo ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]