Re: 7.1 Release Date

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 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?

Because the system is down during this upgrade - the database isn't
running. Also, automated dump might lead to data loss if space becomes
an issue.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.