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Re: [HACKERS] Lots 'o patches

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Cc: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-01T04:27:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Ooops. I guess we need to add "make a useful upgrade procedure" to our
> todo list. I am not picking on this patch, it is a problem of long standing
> but as we get into real applications it will become increasingly
> unacceptable.

You don't like the fact that upgrades require a dump/reload?  I am not
sure we will ever succeed in not requiring that.  We change the system
tables too much, because we are a type-neutral system.

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