From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:04:12 -0500
Message-ID: <13606.1194908652@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711121442.31233.josh@agliodbs.com>
References: <200711121442.31233.josh@agliodbs.com>
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> While we are right to choke down abuse of implicit casting, it might be a
> good idea to give users stronger warnings and instructions.
> I'm thinking that we need to warn everyone about:
> 1) They need to use 8.3's pg_dump, not the old version, to upgrade (this is
> always true but now doing it wrong will break a lot more users).
Uh, what makes you think that will make any difference?
> 3) If Robert gets his type-cast backport package together, the location of
> that.
The very *last* thing I want to see is encouragement of people trying to
undo that change.
regards, tom lane
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