Re: Upgrading rant.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mlw [mailto:pgsql@mohawksoft.com]
> Sent: 05 January 2003 16:36
> To: Bruce Momjian
> Cc: Tom Lane; Hannu Krosing; Lamar Owen; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upgrading rant.
>
> (2) Upgrade HAS HAS HAS to be fool proof.

Agreed.

> No one is going to use it if you say, backup your data just
> in case.

I think we would be irresponsible to _not_ say that, no matter how good
we thought the code was.

> It
> should be as trust worthy as postgresql itself. If it can't
> be that it
> is not a valid tool. Anything less will not be used by
> professionals and
> wouldn't be worth the effort.

Agreed again. But I still backup my PostgreSQL boxes, and would advise
anyone else to as well. Frankly I'm glad I do, especially having had yet
another Fujitsu disk die the other day.

Regards, Dave.