| From: | Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu> |
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| 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: | 2003-09-15 19:43:31 |
| Message-ID: | 3F661663.6060206@pari.edu |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Sure but IMHO it would be more important to fix bugs like the parser not
> correctly using indexes on bigint unless the value is quoted...
> I think everyone would agree that not having to use initdb would be nice
> but I think there is much more important things to focus on.
Important is relative.
> Besides if you are upgrading PostgreSQL in a production environment I
> would assume there would be an extremely valid reason. If the reason is
> big enough to do a major version upgrade then an initdb shouldn't be all
> that bad of a requirement.
I'm not going to rehash the arguments I have made before; they are all
archived. Suffice to say you are simply wrong. The number of
complaints over the years shows that there IS a need.
--
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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