On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 23:08, Tom Lane wrote: > Network Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... However it seems to me that right now that this might not be > > possible while the backend is changing between major releases. > > Perhaps once that doesn't fluxate as much it might be feasible to > > create these layer so that it is not too fat. > > Yeah, that's been in the back of my mind also. Once we have tablespaces > and a couple of the other basic features we're still missing, it might > be a more reasonable proposition to freeze the on-disk representation.
I think that every effort should be made so that the on-disk struct- ure (ODS) doesn't have to change when tablespaces is implemented. I.e., oid-based files live side-by-side with tablespaces. At a minimum, it should be "ok, you don't *have* to do a dump/restore to migrate to v7.7, but if you want the tablespaces that are brand new in v7.7, you must dump data, and recreate the schema with table- spaces before restoring". -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org