On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 11:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > This thread is getting out of hand, actually.
Agreed. We should start new threads for specific things. Please. > However, since by definition pg_control doesn't change in a minor > upgrade, there isn't any easy way to enforce a rule like "slaves must be > same or newer minor version as the master". I'm not sure that we > actually *want* to enforce such a rule, though. Definitely don't want to prevent minor version mismatches. We want to be able to upgrade a standby, have it catch up with the master then switchover to the new version. Otherwise we'd have to take whole replicated system down to do minor upgrades/backouts. Ugh! -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
