Re: minimizing downtime when upgrading

Kenneth Downs wrote:
> AFAIK it has always been the case that you should expect to have to dump
> out your databases and reload them for version upgrades.
>
> Is anybody over at the dev team considering what an onerous burden this
> is?  Is anyone considering doing away with it?

Far from trivial. You have changes in on-disk formats and actual
functionality between major version numbers. For instance - what would
you do to deal with the recent changes in unicode validation?

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd