Re: 7.1 Release Date

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > Will there be a clean upgrade path this time, or
> > yet another dump-initdb-restore procedure?
>
> Still TBD, I think --- right now pg_upgrade would still work, but if
> Vadim finishes WAL there's going to have to be a dump/reload for that.
>
> Another certain dump/reload in the foreseeable future will come from
> adding tablespace support/changing file naming conventions.
>
> > Unclean upgrades are one of major disadvantages of postgresql FTTB,
> > IMHO.
>
> You can always stick to Postgres 6.5 :-).  There are certain features
> that just cannot be added without redoing the on-disk table format.
> I don't think we will ever want to promise "no more dump/reload";
> if we do, it will mean that Postgres has stopped improving.

Not necesarrily - one could either design a on disk format with room
for expansion or create migration tools to add new fields.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.