On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 11:59 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > - Major Pg upgrades will have to run 100% unattended, with a sane > failover, so: install the new version of Pg, attempt a > pg_dump|pg_restore data migration and only switch over if it was > successful.
I am *very* against this one. It is not packager's job to run
dump/reload:
* You may never be sure that it will work. We had this issue in 8.3 for
example.
* Upstream never ever gives such a guarantee that all apps will work on
every PostgreSQL version. For example, some casts were removed in 8.3.
So dumping/restoring should be a DBA work. So "switch over if it was
successful" is really a bad idea, and *will* break things.
* RPMs are *not* allowed to do interactive job, per guidelines. Period.
Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
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