Re: [HACKERS] Proposed structure for coexisting major versions

2003-10-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:05, Neil Conway wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 17:24, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > If it were possible to have two separate versions of the PostgreSQL > > packages installed simultaneously, it would be simple to do database > > upgrades by dumping from the old version and uplo

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed structure for coexisting major versions

2003-10-27 Thread Neil Conway
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 17:24, Oliver Elphick wrote: > If it were possible to have two separate versions of the PostgreSQL > packages installed simultaneously, it would be simple to do database > upgrades by dumping from the old version and uploading to the new. You'd need some mechanism to prevent

[HACKERS] Proposed structure for coexisting major versions

2003-10-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
I sent this out a few days ago to pgsql-general. I'm resending it in the hope of some comment, in particular whether there is any interest in incorporating this into PostgreSQL itself, since this may make a difference to how I approach it. If people aren't in favour of including it, I will go ahe