Re: State of Beta 2

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think we could definitely adopt a policy of "on-disk changes not
>> oftener than every X releases" if we had a working pg_upgrade,

> 'K, but let's put the horse in front of the cart ... adopt the policy so
> that the work on a working pg_upgrade has a chance of succeeding ... if we
> said no on disk changes for, let's say, the next release, then that would
> provide an incentive (I think!) for someone(s) to pick up the ball and

No can do, unless your intent is to force people to work on pg_upgrade
and nothing else (a position I for one would ignore ;-)).  With such a
policy and no pg_upgrade we'd be unable to apply any catalog changes at
all, which would pretty much mean that 7.5 would look exactly like 7.4.

If someone wants to work on pg_upgrade, great.  But I'm not in favor of
putting all other development on hold until it happens.

            regards, tom lane