Re: State of Beta 2

It's be EXTREMELY cool if there was some relationship betweenn the code for;

PITR and
Inplace upgrades

Any possibility of overlaps?

Mike Mascari wrote:

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>>And that has nothing to do with user need as a whole, since the care
>>level I mentioned is predicated by the developer interest level. While
>>I know, Marc, how the whole project got started (I have read the first
>>posts), and I appreciate that you, Bruce, Thomas, and Vadim started the
>>original core team because you were and are users of PostgreSQL, I
>>sincerely believe that in this instance you are out of touch with this
>>need of many of today's userbase. And I say that with full knowledge of
>>PostgreSQL Inc.'s support role. If given the choice between upgrading
>>capability, PITR, and Win32 support, my vote would go to upgrading. Then
>>migrating to PITR won't be a PITN.
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>Ouch. I'd like to see an easy upgrade path, but I'd rather have a 7.5
>with PITR then an in-place upgrade. Perhaps the demand for either is
>associated with the size of the db vs. the fear associated with an
>inability to restore to a point-in-time. My fear of an accidental:
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>DELETE FROM foo;
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>>What good are great features if it's a PITN to get upgraded to them?
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>What good is an in-place upgrade without new features?
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>(I'm kinda joking here) ;-)
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>Mike Mascari
>mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com
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