Re: Hardening pg_upgrade

Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

>>> I vote for discarding 8.3 support in pg_upgrade.  There are already
>>> enough limitations on pg_upgrade from pre-8.4 to make it of questionable
>>> value; if it's going to create problems like this, it's time to cut the
>>> rope.
>>
>> +1. 8.3 has been unsupported for a fairly long time now, and you can
>> still do a two-step upgrade if you're on that old a version.
>
> Also +1 from my side. I've seen some old 8.3 installations at customers,
> still, but they aren't large and can easily be upgraded with a two step
> upgrade.

+1

If we could leave it without it being any extra work, fine; but
once a release is over a year out of support, if it's a matter of
putting extra work on the pg hackers or on the users who have
chosen to wait more than a year after support ends to do the
upgrade, I'm OK with asking those users to do a two-phase upgrade
or fall back to pg_dump.  It's not like we're leaving them without
any options.

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