Re: Removing pg_migrator limitations

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> >>> There are several pg_migrator limitations that appeared late in the 8.4
>> >>> development cycle and were impossible to fix at that point. ?I would
>> >>> like to fix them for Postgres 8.5:
>> >>>
>> >>> ? ? ? ? o ?a user-defined composite data type
>> >>> ? ? ? ? o ?a user-defined array data type
>> >>> ? ? ? ? o ?a user-defined enum data type
>> >>
>> >> FYI, these pg_migrator restrictions are now gone when migrating to PG
>> >> 8.5, even _from_ PG 8.3.
>> >
>> > Wow, cool. ?That seems like a good step forward.
>>
>> It appears that the pg_migrator README needs a bit of revision to make
>> it more clear which limitations apply to migration between which
>> versions.  In particular, the current wording suggests that NONE of
>> the limitations apply to 8.3 -> 8.5 migrations, which is not the case
>> - e.g. we haven't done anything about the need to rebuild certain
>> types of indices.
>
> Very true. I have just made a new pg_migrator release with an updated
> README file.

Ah, cool.  So this seems to imply that a migration from 8.4 to 8.5
should be clear sailing.  Is that correct?

...Robert