Re: State of Beta 2

From: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: State of Beta 2
Date: 2003-09-16 21:14:26
Message-ID: 3F677D32.1050301@fireserve.net
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It's be EXTREMELY cool if there was some relationship betweenn the code for;

PITR and
Inplace upgrades

Any possibility of overlaps?

Mike Mascari wrote:

>Lamar Owen wrote:
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>>And that has nothing to do with user need as a whole, since the care
>>level I mentioned is predicated by the developer interest level. While
>>I know, Marc, how the whole project got started (I have read the first
>>posts), and I appreciate that you, Bruce, Thomas, and Vadim started the
>>original core team because you were and are users of PostgreSQL, I
>>sincerely believe that in this instance you are out of touch with this
>>need of many of today's userbase. And I say that with full knowledge of
>>PostgreSQL Inc.'s support role. If given the choice between upgrading
>>capability, PITR, and Win32 support, my vote would go to upgrading. Then
>>migrating to PITR won't be a PITN.
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>Ouch. I'd like to see an easy upgrade path, but I'd rather have a 7.5
>with PITR then an in-place upgrade. Perhaps the demand for either is
>associated with the size of the db vs. the fear associated with an
>inability to restore to a point-in-time. My fear of an accidental:
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>DELETE FROM foo;
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>is greater than my loathing of the upgrade process.
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>>What good are great features if it's a PITN to get upgraded to them?
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>What good is an in-place upgrade without new features?
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>(I'm kinda joking here) ;-)
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>Mike Mascari
>mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com
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