Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> While we are right to choke down abuse of implicit casting, it might be a
> good idea to give users stronger warnings and instructions.

> I'm thinking that we need to warn everyone about:
> 1) They need to use 8.3's pg_dump, not the old version, to upgrade (this is
> always true but now doing it wrong will break a lot more users).

Uh, what makes you think that will make any difference?

> 3) If Robert gets his type-cast backport package together, the location of
> that.

The very *last* thing I want to see is encouragement of people trying to
undo that change.

            regards, tom lane