Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PGUpgrade WAS: Audio interview

Tom,

> If such a tool were available, I don't think it'd be hard to get
> consensus on organizing our releases so that it were applicable more
> often than not.  We could postpone changes that would affect user
> table contents until we'd built up a backlog that would all go into
> one release.  Even a minimal commitment in that line would probably
> result in pgupgrade working for at least every other release, and
> that would be enough to make it worthwhile if you ask me ...

We could even make that our first/second dot difference in the future.
That is, 8.2 will be pg-upgradable from 8.1 but 9.0 will not.

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--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco