Re: Remaining beta blockers

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:02:59PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com> wrote:
> >>> What is a real problem or risk with using this mechanism until we
> >>> engineer something better?  What problems with converting to a
> >>> later major release does anyone see?
> >>
> >> Well, it's a pg_upgrade hazard, if nothing else, isn't it?
> >
> > I don't think so.  What do you see as a problem?
> 
> pg_upgrade only handles changes in catalog state, not on-disk
> representation.  If the on-disk representation of an non-scannable
> view might change in a future release, it's a pg_upgrade hazard.

Yes, pg_upgrade is never going to write to data pages as that would be
slow and prevent the ability to roll back to the previous cluster on
error.

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