Re: need for in-place upgrades (was Re: State of Beta 2)

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: need for in-place upgrades (was Re: State of Beta 2)
Date: 2003-09-18 21:29:13
Message-ID: 20030918212913.GI2740@libertyrms.info
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On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:52:45AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> So instead of 1TB of 15K fiber channel disks (and the requisite
> controllers, shelves, RAID overhead, etc), we'd need *two* TB of
> 15K fiber channel disks (and the requisite controllers, shelves,
> RAID overhead, etc) just for the 1 time per year when we'd upgrade
> PostgreSQL?

Nope. You also need it for the time when your vendor sells
controllers or chips or whatever with known flaws, and you end up
having hardware that falls over 8 or 9 times in a row.

A

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