Alvaro Herrera wrote: <snip> > I agree with Lamar that upgrading is a very difficult process right now. > Requiring huge amounts of disk space and database downtime to do > dump/restore is in some cases too high a price to pay. So maybe the > upgrading process should be observed instead of wasting time on people > trying to stay behind because of the price of that process.
As a "simple for the user approach", would it be too-difficult-to-bother-with to add to the postmaster an ability to start up with the data files from the previous version, for it to recognise an old data format automatically, then for it to do the conversion process of the old data format to the new one before going any further? Sounds like a pain to create initially, but nifty in the end. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift <snip> > -- > Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>) > "La fuerza no est� en los medios f�sicos > sino que reside en una voluntad indomable" (Gandhi) -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
