Re: Error: column "nsptablespace" does not exist

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Error: column "nsptablespace" does not exist
Date: 2004-12-05 12:05:52
Message-ID: 41B2F9A0.7040800@pse-consulting.de
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Monday 29 November 2004 23:52, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>>don't we normally announce if initdb is required on new beta releases? We
>>>should.
>>
>>It was sloppy that we didn't do that for beta5, and I apologize for it.
>>
>>One problem is that we don't have a defined place for per-beta-version
>>release notes. The current structure of release.sgml doesn't cater for
>>it --- and I doubt we want to permanently memorialize beta-version
>>issues anyway. Any thoughts?
>>
>
>
> Do the beta changelogs ever end up any place permanent?
> (ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v8.0.0beta/ChangeLog-Beta4-to-Beta5)
> We could put a more prominant "**INITDB REQUIRED**" announcement in those when
> it is required.

Yes, some kind of information "initdb required because column xxx was
dropped" would be helpful. When scanning the whole beta4-to-beta5 file,
you'd easily miss the consequence of the 2004-11-05 patch ("remove
concept of a schema having an associated tablespace").

Regards,
Andreas

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