Re: Upgrading rant.

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-04T05:39:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> pg_upgrade does work, assuming there are no changes to the index or heap
> file formats.  (However, I now need to update it for schemas.)  However,
> the last time I worked on it for 7.2, no one was really interested in
> testing it, so it never got done.  In fact, there was a bug in the
> handling of clog or wal files, but I didn't find out about it until long
> after 7.2 because no one was using it.
>
> Is pg_upgrade too hard to run?  Is no one really interested in it?

I'm interested.  I might look into it a bit more this release cycle as it
seems that I don't really have the time for major features like I did last
cycle.

Still looking for something straightforward to work on...

Chris