Re: The case for version number inflation

Selena,

> This seems like a case to be made for Postgres to respond more elegantly to
> this situation, possibly by converting blocks on the fly to the newer
> version of the database for writes and being ok with reading previous
> versions of blocks, or simply not writing data to the filesystem when the
> versions don't match.

It's on the TODO list.  It's just really hard to implement, especially
if you consider the combinational challenge.

Postgres won't start up if the binaries don't match the data ... unless
someone has written a script which replaces the pg_control file :-(