Re: State of Beta 2

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Sure but IMHO it would be more important to fix bugs like the parser not
> correctly using indexes on bigint unless the value is quoted...

> I think everyone would agree that not having to use initdb would be nice
> but I think there is much more important things to focus on.

Important is relative.

> Besides if you are upgrading PostgreSQL in a production environment I
> would assume there would be an extremely valid reason. If the reason is
> big enough to do a major version upgrade then an initdb shouldn't be all
> that bad of a requirement.

I'm not going to rehash the arguments I have made before; they are all
archived.  Suffice to say you are simply wrong.  The number of
complaints over the years shows that there IS a need.
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Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute