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