From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Childs <blue(dot)dragon(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: 8.0 rc2 Problem |
Date: | 2004-12-27 18:23:45 |
Message-ID: | 200412271823.iBRINj612790@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Childs wrote:
> Right just installed rc2 to test so that we can use 8.0 once its
> out. Loads of nice features, Nice to see them all. Postgres 8.0 seams
> faster, but this might be due to the reload. Oh the point in time
> recovery feature are there any example scripts to say copy the files to
> somewhere then print them onto cd or somthing once created. Oh and is it
> possible to examin the point in time logs and see what happerened when,
> ie which table got updated to what, very useful when research problems
> later.... Probably would require some form of viewer I guess.
>
> 2 Problems encountered.
>
> 1. Confirguration file is completly different, so it you have one that
> you have configured carfull for 7.4 it will not work at all with 8.0
> many configuration options have changed there names or changed how they
> work. I can understand new ones and dropping some of the old ones but
> why change it so complely?
I would diff postgresql.conf against the share/postgresql.conf.sample
and merge your changes into 8.0. We change it dramatically because we
improve functionality and clarity. If we emphasized
backward-compatibility it would be very unclear after a while.
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