Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4

>
> Bruce Momjian:
> > PG_VERSION is now 6.4.  initdb everyone.  Or did we decide not to do
> > this if we could help it.  I think we will still need to run initdb, and
> > move the data files.
>
> I had thought we were going to avoid changing this unless there were changes
> to persistant structures. Do you know what changed to require this?
>
> Thanks

The contents of the system tables are going to change between releases,
almost for sure.  What I think we are going to do is have people pg_dump
-schema their databases, mv /data to /data.old, run initdb, run to
create the old schema, and move the data/index files back into place.
I will probably write the script and have people test it.

As long as we don't change the data/index structure, we are OK.  Is that
good, or did you think we would be able to get away without system table
changes?


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