Re: State of Beta 2

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:23, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > I'm not going to rehash the arguments I have made before; they are all 
> > > archived.  Suffice to say you are simply wrong.  The number of 
> > > complaints over the years shows that there IS a need.
> > 
> > 
> > I at no point suggested that there was not a need. I only suggest that 
> > the need may not be as great as some suspect or feel. To be honest -- if 
> > your arguments were the "need" that everyone had... it would have been 
> > implemented some how. It hasn't yet which would suggest that the number 
> > of people that have the "need" at your level is not as great as the 
> > number of people who have different "needs" from PostgreSQL.
> 
> But the problem is that as more and more people put larger and larger
> datasets, that are mission-critical, into PostgreSQL, the need will
> grow larger and larger.
> 
> Of course, we understand the "finite resources" issue, and are not
> badgering/complaining.  Simply, we are trying to make our case that
> this is something that should go on the TODO list, and be kept in
> the back of developers' minds.

Added to TODO:

	* Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using
	  pg_upgrade

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