Re: status/timeline of pglogical?

On 05/12/2016 07:37 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> 3. I think we need to replace pg_upgrade with a real in-place upgrade
> scheme so that you just fire up the new version of the server on your
> old data directory, and it rejiggers things in place without needing
> to create a new cluster and migrate stuff over to it.  I think that
> actually making this work is a huge engineering effort, and I have no
> plans to undertake it in the near term, but I think it has to be done.
> pg_upgrade isn't reliable enough, and using pglogical means you need a
> second machine.  Maybe everybody should run with a standby, but not
> everyone does.

I am not arguing with you but... good luck. History has shown that the
argument above is basically this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Sincerely,

JD


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