| From: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> |
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| To: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: State of Beta 2 |
| Date: | 2003-09-12 21:59:21 |
| Message-ID: | 3F6241B9.4000501@fireserve.net |
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Ron Johnson wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:50, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
>
>
>>Small soapbox moment here...
>>
>>ANYTHING that can be done to eliminate having to do an initdb on
>>version changes would make a lot of people do cartwheels. 'Do a
>>dump/reload' sometimes comes across a bit casually on the lists (my
>>apologies if it isn't meant to be), but it can be be incredibly onerous
>>to do on a large production system. That's probably why you run across
>>people running stupid-old versions.
>>
>>
>
>And this will become even more of an issue as it's PG's popularity
>grows with large and 24x7 databases.
>
>
He is right, it might be a good idea to head this problem 'off at the
pass'. I am usually pretty good at predicting technilogical trends. I've
made some money at it. And I predict that Postgres will eclipse MySQL
and be in the top 5 of all databases deployed. But it does have some
achilles tendon's.
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