Re: State of Beta 2
От | Ron Johnson |
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Тема | Re: State of Beta 2 |
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Msg-id | 1063668518.11739.1265.camel@haggis обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: State of Beta 2 ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>) |
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Re: State of Beta 2
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Список | pgsql-general |
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 13:24, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Strawmen. If we provide a good upgrade capability, we would just > > simply have to think about upgrades before changing features like > > that. The upgrade code could be cognizant of these sorts of things; > > and shoud be, in fact. > > Sure but IMHO it would be more important to fix bugs like the parser not > correctly using indexes on bigint unless the value is quoted... > > I think everyone would agree that not having to use initdb would be nice > but I think there is much more important things to focus on. > > Besides if you are upgrading PostgreSQL in a production environment I > would assume there would be an extremely valid reason. If the reason is > big enough to do a major version upgrade then an initdb shouldn't be all > that bad of a requirement. Hmmm. A (US-oriented) hypothetical: BOSS: The app works now. Why rock the boat? DBA: The new version has features that will save 20% disk space, and speed up certain operations by 75% every day. BOSS: Fantastic! How long will it take to upgrade? DBA: 18 hours. BOSS: 18 hours!! We can only take that much downtime on Thanks- giving weekend, or 3-day July 4th, Christmas or New Year's weekends. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch
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