> Strawmen. If we provide a good upgrade capability, we would just
> simply have to think about upgrades before changing features like
> that. The upgrade code could be cognizant of these sorts of things;
> and shoud be, in fact.
Sure but IMHO it would be more important to fix bugs like the parser not
correctly using indexes on bigint unless the value is quoted...
I think everyone would agree that not having to use initdb would be nice
but I think there is much more important things to focus on.
Besides if you are upgrading PostgreSQL in a production environment I
would assume there would be an extremely valid reason. If the reason is
big enough to do a major version upgrade then an initdb shouldn't be all
that bad of a requirement.
J
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