From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:45:04 +0100
Message-ID: <200711131045.04878.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711121442.31233.josh@agliodbs.com>
References: <200711121442.31233.josh@agliodbs.com>
Am Montag, 12. November 2007 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> 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).
What difference would pg_dump make?
> 2) They need to check for bugs
What bugs?
> 3) If Robert gets his type-cast backport package together, the location of
> that.
Well, if you want to undo the changes, you don't need a backport package; you
can just change the cast's definition.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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