Re: State of Beta 2

From: Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: State of Beta 2
Date: 2003-09-13 23:06:58
Message-ID: 3F63A312.2040706@pari.edu
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> The initdb is not always a bad thing. In reality the idea of just being
> able to "upgrade" is not a good thing. Just think about the differences
> between 7.2.3 and 7.3.x... The most annoying (although appropriate) one
> being that integers can no longer be ''.

> If we provide the ability to do a wholesale upgrade many things would
> just break. Heck even the connection protocol is different for 7.4.

Strawmen. If we provide a good upgrade capability, we would just simply
have to think about upgrades before changing features like that. The
upgrade code could be cognizant of these sorts of things; and shoud be,
in fact.
--
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute

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