Re: Beta4 release announcement

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 08/01/2010 08:39 AM, Selena Deckelmann wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've hacked up a release announcement:
>>
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/9.0beta4announcement
>>
>> Did I miss anything major?
>
> This paragraph is confusing:
>
> Note that, due to a system catalog change, an initdb and database reload
> will be required for upgrading from 9.0Beta1. We encourage users to use this
> opportunity to test pg_upgrade for the upgrade from beta3 or an earlier
> version of 9.0. Please report your results.
>
> It should read instead:
>
> Unlike previous betas, there has been no system catalog change since Beta3,
> so an initdb should not be required to upgrade test databases from Beta3.
>  Upgrading test databases from earlier versions or betas will require an
> initdb, however, so we urge users to take the opportunity to test upgrading
> their database using 9.0's pg_upgrade and report the results.
>
> ... as I believe we did *not* bump the system catalogs this time.

Ok :) That text was in from the last release. Mea culpa.

-selena

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