On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:50, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
> Small soapbox moment here...
>
> ANYTHING that can be done to eliminate having to do an initdb on
> version changes would make a lot of people do cartwheels. 'Do a
> dump/reload' sometimes comes across a bit casually on the lists (my
> apologies if it isn't meant to be), but it can be be incredibly onerous
> to do on a large production system. That's probably why you run across
> people running stupid-old versions.
And this will become even more of an issue as it's PG's popularity
grows with large and 24x7 databases.
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Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Jefferson, LA USA
An ad run by the NEA (the US's biggest public school TEACHERS
UNION) in the Spring and Summer of 2003 asks a teenager if he
can find sodium and *chloride* in the periodic table of the elements.
And they wonder why people think public schools suck...