Re: State of Beta 2

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> > > I'm not going to rehash the arguments I have made before; they are all
> > > archived. Suffice to say you are simply wrong. The number of
> > > complaints over the years shows that there IS a need.
> >
> >
> > I at no point suggested that there was not a need. I only suggest that
> > the need may not be as great as some suspect or feel. To be honest -- if
> > your arguments were the "need" that everyone had... it would have been
> > implemented some how. It hasn't yet which would suggest that the number
> > of people that have the "need" at your level is not as great as the
> > number of people who have different "needs" from PostgreSQL.
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> Just to add to this ... Bruce *did* start pg_upgrade, but I don't recall
> anyone else looking at extending it ... if the *need* was so great,
> someone would have step'd up and looked into adding to what was already
> there ...

I was thinking of working on pg_upgrade for 7.4, but other things seemed
more important.

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