| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andy Astor <andy(dot)astor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: The naming question (Postgres vs PostgreSQL) |
| Date: | 2007-09-03 20:47:31 |
| Message-ID: | 46DC72E3.6070108@Yahoo.com |
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On 9/3/2007 11:58 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Oh, one more thing. I think it is illustrative to look at the areas we
> _didn't_ change when we went from "Postgres95" to "PostgreSQL": the
> super-user name and the backend binary name. Those were kept as
> "postgres", and I remember no questions about why those are "postgres".
More to the point, looking at our recommended upgrade strategy (use new
pg_dump against old Postmaster), wouldn't it be actually wise to somehow
encode the major version number into the installation directory? I mean
seriously, we didn't have a real problem ever, but what if some day the
new pg_dump against the old postmaster produces complete garbage ... and
the upgrade just wiped the data directory with an initdb?
Jan
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