Re: pg_class changes for group ownership

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > Ah, alright, sounds good to me. I'll look into making them share a
> > common unique identifier space, that shouldn't be too difficult. Of
> > course, that'll require a dump/restore, I expect.. I don't suppose that
> > could possibly happen before 8.0, eh? :)
>
> Changing pg_class would have the same problem ...

Well, yes, but that's no longer the issue. I guess my thought was that
if we could get the common id space change in before 8.0 then group
ownership could possibly be introduced in 8.1 w/o having to do a
dump/restore. I'm still relatively new to Postgres, is it normal to
require a dump/restore between semi-major (8.0 to 8.1) revisions? If so
then it doesn't matter since I wouldn't expect group ownership to be
introduced prior to 8.1 (at the earliest..) anyway.

Thanks,

Stephen