Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4

>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, David Gould wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>     Huh?  PG_VERSION should reflect that which we release, so that ppl
> know what version they are running, for bug reports and whatnot...

It also requires the postmaster/postgres to match that version so they
can run.  PG_VERSION gets set at initdb time, so if we update it, we
basically require them to run initdb so it matches the
backend/postmaster version.

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