From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199806010427.AAA24654@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Lots 'o patches
To: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 00:27:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, hackers@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <9805312331.AA27572@hawk.illustra.com> from "David Gould" at May
	31, 98 04:31:27 pm
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> Ooops. I guess we need to add "make a useful upgrade procedure" to our
> todo list. I am not picking on this patch, it is a problem of long standing
> but as we get into real applications it will become increasingly
> unacceptable.

You don't like the fact that upgrades require a dump/reload?  I am not
sure we will ever succeed in not requiring that.  We change the system
tables too much, because we are a type-neutral system.

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