Re: Automatic compat checking? (was 7.4 compatibility question)

>
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:37, Neil Conway wrote:
> > The second audience is the people who are really interested in exactly
> > what has changed between the new release of PostgreSQL and the previous
> > release series. It is important that we make it easy for an admin
> > planning a PostgreSQL upgrade at a fairly large site to be able to see
> > what changes in PostgreSQL have been made, and what changes will be
> > necessary in their own applications.
>
> Something I was pondering the other day was whether a pg_compat_chk utility
> would be practical/desirable. You run it against your existing database /
> schema dump and it prints a set of warnings:
>
> Old version = 7.2.1
> New version = 7.4.0
>
> Warning: schema support introduced (v7.3)
> all objects will be placed in the default schema
> Failure: DEFAULT 'now' not supported (v7.4)
> table1.column2
> table2.column3
> Notice: timestamp now holds milliseconds by default (v7.3)
> tableX.whatever
>
> My main concern would be that a 90% solution might be worse than nothing at
> all.
> Incidentally, this is not idle speculation, but something I might well have
> time to stick in gborg during the 7.5 devt cycle.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>
A pg_compat_chk utility sounds great.
No idea, if this is practical, but it's desirable - at least to me.

Regards, Christoph

PS I'm surprised no one else replied.