Re: [DOCS] [pgsql-advocacy] Avoiding upgrade backlash

2007-11-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gregory Stark wrote: > "Andrew Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > IMPLICIT TYPECASTS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY REMOVED. TEST YOUR APPLICATION! > > I think you have to say that without using the technical gobbledygook > "implicit casts". > > Something like: > > Non-strings are no longer conver

Re: [DOCS] Avoiding upgrade backlash

2007-11-12 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While we are right to choke down abuse of implicit casting, it might be a > good idea to give users stronger warnings and instructions. > I'm thinking that we need to warn everyone about: > 1) They need to use 8.3's pg_dump, not the old version, to upgr

[DOCS] Avoiding upgrade backlash

2007-11-12 Thread Josh Berkus
Hackers, I'm seeing from reports on IRC that 8.3 may cause an unprecedented number of upgrade issues for users who have old, badly-written applications. Stefan K, for example, was reporting the necessity of re-writing 3000 lines of his PL/pgSQL code on an older app (about 10%). While we are r

Re: [DOCS] High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication Feature Matrix

2007-11-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hello Bruce, > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot who was involved in that discussion. > > Well, at least that means I didn't annoy you to death last time ;-) Certainly not. The more ideas the better. I need all the help I can get. > > Sorry, I meant that

Re: [DOCS] High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication Feature Matrix

2007-11-12 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hello Bruce, Bruce Momjian wrote: Sorry, I forgot who was involved in that discussion. Well, at least that means I didn't annoy you to death last time ;-) With the other two I'm unsure.. I see it's very hard to find helpful positive formulations... Yea, that's where I got stuck --- that th