> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 18:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I have already >> suggested to core that we should insist on 8.1 not requiring an initdb, >> so as to ensure that people will migrate up to it easily from 8.0.
> So is it firm policy that changes that require a catversion update > cannot be made during the 8.1 cycle? Not yet --- I suggested it but didn't get any yeas or nays. I don't feel this is solely core's decision anyway ... what do the assembled hackers think? >> (Needless to say, it would be good to get this sorted out early on in >> the 8.1 development cycle, to avoid the need to revert patches at some >> point down the line. For those of us working on large projects that >> will definitely require an initdb, it would also be good to know -- as >> this policy will likely prevent that work from getting into 8.1) >Yes, it has to be decided one way or the other soon. >One way to have our cake and eat it too would be for someone to >resurrect pg_upgrade during this devel cycle. Anyone feel like >working on that? Yup. I feel like working on that and not just feel as I been noising about it in the recent past. In fact I have opend a pgfoundry project for that exact work. > regards, tom lane -- Serguei A. Mokhov | /~\ The ASCII Computer Science Department | \ / Ribbon Campaign Concordia University | X Against HTML Montreal, Quebec, Canada | / \ Email! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
