Perhaps we should put a link on the home page underneath LATEST
RELEASEs saying
7.2: de-supported
with a link to a scary note along the lines of the above.
ISTM that there are still too many people on older releases.
We probably need an explanation of why we support so
That way if someone wanted to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1, they
can just grab the latest dumper from the website, dump their
old database, then upgrade easily.
But if they're upgrading to 8.1, don't they already have the new
pg_dump? How else are they going to dump their *new* database?
Erm.
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
That most people don't know they should use the new one I understand
though. But I don't see how this will help against that :-)
It'll make it easy...
As the miscreant that caused this thread to get started, let me
*wholeheartedly* agree with Chris. An easy
That way if someone wanted to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1, they
can just
grab the latest dumper from the website, dump their old
database, then
upgrade easily.
But if they're upgrading to 8.1, don't they already have the new
pg_dump? How else are they going to dump their *new*
