Re: pg_migrator to /contrib in a later 9.0 beta

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_migrator to /contrib in a later 9.0 beta
Date: 2010-05-02 15:39:39
Message-ID: 11811.1272814779@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I thought the idea was just to support migration from version N to
>> version N+1.

> Oh, I will also support many older _source_ versions, like 8.3 and 8.4.

Really? Nobody else has bought into that, and it's not only pg_migrator
that would have to go out of its way to support such cases. You're
talking about cross-multi-version compatibility of on-disk formats too.

regards, tom lane

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