Re: Planning incompatibilities for Postgres 10.0

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:53:37AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > I consider this thread to be not thought-through, obviously.
>
> My proposal has had lots of serious consideration, but that is not the
> topic of this thread.
>
> The title of the thread is a general one, with a clear objective.
>
> I'm looking for a way forwards that allows us to introduce the changes
> that many have proposed and which regrettably result in
> incompatibilities. If we have no plan I think its likely it will never
> happen and it is currently blocking useful change.
>
> Please explain what you consider to be a better plan, so we can judge
> all proposals together.

I agree with the idea of using logical replication as a way to do
pg_upgrade version-breaking releases. What I don't know is what
incompatible changes are pending that would require this.

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