Re: status/timeline of pglogical?

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:10:06AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> The only reason this has been brought up is that pglogical is a tool designed
> to reduce the impact of upgrades. No other tool has ever been available
> externally to do that, apart from pg_upgrade which was accepted into core in
> quite a poor state. So this discussion has not been about "external tools" it
> has been about the one and only external tool that provides an improved upgrade
> route.
>
> If people don't want to mention it, fine, no problem, as I said I've not sought
> to create a new precedent.
>
> We can add some mentions in the docs in appropriate locations, for example, the
> detailed release notes and upgrade pages.

I don't have an opinion on whether to add it or not --- I was just
saying it is different to mention it in the release notes rather in the
appropriate place in the docs.

You are right that is very similar to pg_upgrade, though I think you are
also right that pg_upgrade wasn't mentioned until it was in contrib,
because it was (perceived?) to be in such poor shape, or just a crazy
idea.  :-)

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