On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
And you're probably aware of the issue with Amazon Linux, where they don't distinguish between version 9.1 and 9.2 and thus corrupt people's databases.
This seems like a case to be made for Postgres to respond more elegantly to this situation, possibly by converting blocks on the fly to the newer version of the database for writes and being ok with reading previous versions of blocks, or simply not writing data to the filesystem when the versions don't match.
I'll not weigh in on the version number inflation. Seems like a lot of epic bikeshedding.