Re: State of Beta 2

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:48:48PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>  The initdb is not always a bad thing. In reality the idea of just
> being able to "upgrade" is not a good thing. Just think about the
> differences between 7.2.3 and 7.3.x... The most annoying (although
> appropriate) one being that integers can no longer be ''.

But it would be much easier if one wasn't forced to create a dump and
then restore it.  One would still need to change the applications, but
that doesn't force downtime.


>  If we provide the ability to do a wholesale upgrade many things would
> just break. Heck even the connection protocol is different for 7.4.

But the new client libpq _can_ talk to older servers.

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