Re: 7.1 Release Date

On 29 Aug 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsr�d wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>
> > On 29 Aug 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsr� d wrote:
> >
> > > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Miguel Omar Carvajal wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >    When will Postgresql 7.1 be released?
> > > >
> > > > right now, we're looking at October-ish for going beta, so most likely
> > > > November-ish for a release ...
> > >
> > > Will there be a clean upgrade path this time, or
> > > yet another dump-initdb-restore procedure?
> >
> > IMHO, upgrading a database server is like upgrading an operating system
> > ... you scheduale downtime, back it all up and upgrade ...
>
> The problem is, this doesn't play that well with upgrading the
> database when upgrading the OS, like in most Linux distributions.

why not?  pg_dump;pkrm old;pkadd new;load ... no?

I use both Solaris and FreeBSD, and its pretty much "that simple" for both
of those ...