Re: Did we really want to force an initdb in beta2?

Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> >> On Jun 3, 2010, at 19:00 , Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Maybe we should just get rid of the hint.
> >
> >> FYI, Robert Haas suggested the same in the thread that lead to this patch being applied. The arguments against
doingthat is that a real crash during recovery *is* something to be quite alarmed about.
 
> >
> > After some discussion among core we're going to leave it as-is. ?Anybody
> > who doesn't want to initdb for beta2 can test out pg_upgrade ;-)
> 
> Shouldn't we have bumped the catversion? The installers can't tell
> that beta1 clusters won't work with beta2 :-(

That is an interesting point.  Tom bumped the pg_control version, but
not the catalog version.  I am unclear how that affects people's
visibility about incompatibility.  (pg_upgrade will not care.)

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