On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:20 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With respect to you Kevin, your managers should wait. You don't > > Now I realize that you did say "test" above, but way too often I see > this sort of argument as a justification for doing nothing and > expecting somebody else to fix it. Tom, I get paid to deal with it, remember? I hardly want to do nothing and expect someone else to fix it. I wouldn't get paid :) I just believe that the sanest course of action with my customers data, is the conservative course of action. That means, testing, before, during and after release. It also means unless there is something extremely pertinent (I have several customers threatening to fly out and strangle me personally if I don't upgrade them to 8.3 ASAP because of HOT), I won't upgrade them until I have confidence in production deployment. There are varying degrees of need. Some will need 8.3 as soon as possible, but even those I would professionally suggest they put against a test harness of production data. Otherwise they are looking for trouble and they are may or may not find it. When one has been doing this as long as I have, with as many postgresql deployments as I have... you get gun shy and only upgrade when you must. That means dot releases, or specific business value. I have many, many customers that will be on 8.1 for a very, very long time to come. I will concede that it is a very hard argument for *anyone* to be running less than 8.1. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our > list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/
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