From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: Alpha releases: How to tag |
Date: | 2009-08-07 15:57:25 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f070908070857q4dbb227cy37a08d49effb655d@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Bruce Momjian<bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On Monday 03 August 2009 21:07:00 David Fetter wrote:
>> > We require that people supply docs with their changes, and it is
>> > totally unreasonable to let them send in catalog changes which do not
>> > include need migration changes. That's how it works in every other
>> > RDBMS outfit that has changes on disk, and we do not need to be the
>> > exception.
>>
>> Well, blocker number one for that is that pg_migrator is not even in the
>> PostgreSQL CVS repository, but is more like an endorsed third-party product.
>
> I wouldn't say pg_migrator is "endorsed". It is on pgfoundry and was
> mentioned in the press release, but it isn't mentioned in our
> documentation about upgrading, it wasn't mentioned in the release notes,
> and it isn't mentioned on our web site, except as a news item.
>
> I believe this is because of concerns about pg_migrator's "experimental"
> nature.
I think so. And also because it has a fair number of documented
restrictions. Hopefully we'll be able to remove some of those in a
future release.
...Robert
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