| From: | Harold Giménez <harold(dot)gimenez(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Changing pg_dump default file format |
| Date: | 2013-11-08 03:41:12 |
| Message-ID: | CABQCq-Tm1NioFO9McRGbWJyvpvNFy9kHTaYM3YjgCwzuxuswag@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> (a) Lots of people only upgrade every two, three, or even more major
> versions. I'm dealing with clients on 8.3, and people still pop up on
> Stack Overflow with 8.1 sometimes! These people don't ever see the
> deprecated phase.
>
Interesting that they'd never update their clients either. I guess if
that's true
there's a mentality of if it ain't broke don't fix it going on here.
Would they read change logs before upgrading, or just cross their fingers?
>
> (b) People routinely ignore cron job output. Even important job output.
> They won't see the messages, and won't act on them if they do until
> something actually breaks.
>
How common is this?
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