Re: Numeric 508 datatype

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>>However, I don't think we can promise never to change the ondisk
>>representation of data, nor the page layout. Sometimes an inplace
>>upgrade just won't work, ISTM.
>
>
> We have talked about batching on-disk changes so that they'd only occur
> once every few release cycles.  But until we have a pg_upgrade, there is
> no reason to adopt such a policy.

IMHO such a policy is a _prerequisite_ for somebody to come up
implementing pg_upgrade. Why spend time on pg_upgrade if there's no
policy to support it?

Regards,
Andreas