| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_migrator issue with contrib |
| Date: | 2009-06-07 14:04:23 |
| Message-ID: | 12841.1244383463@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think it's becoming increasingly clear that pg_migrator is not for
> the faint of heart; in fact, I think we should hedge references to it
> with words like "experimental".
Probably ...
> Just to recall the history, the first pgfoundry
> commit messages for this tool were on February 9th, three months after
> the start of the final CommitFest and feature freeze for 8.4. Since
> then, development has proceeded at an amazingly rapid pace, but
> there's only so much you can do in four months,
... but the above is a *complete* misrepresentation of the thing's
history (apparently you failed to look in the Attic?). EDB have been
using previous versions of this tool for some years, and the basic
premise is the same as contrib/pg_upgrade that existed as far back as
7.1/7.2 timeframe.
regards, tom lane
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