Scott Kitterman, on Sun 25 Dec 2016 01:27:58 -0500, wrote: > On Sunday, December 25, 2016 06:36:52 AM Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Paul van der Vlis, on Sun 25 Dec 2016 01:34:15 +0100, wrote: > > > I would like it when > > > desktop users could get a message that programms has to be restarted. > > > Not sure this is important for servers too, I would think so. > > > > In a mail server we have, the mysql upgrades are problematic: while the > > sql server is off, postgresql reports that mailboxes (whose entries are > > stored in the sql database) don't exist, i.e. a permanent fatal error, > > and mails then get lost. We haven't found how to make postgresql return > > a temporary error instead, and so we have to be careful, when upgrading > > mysql, to keep postgresql stopped until mysql is restarted. > > That's hardly a standard situation.
Sure. > I don't think configurations like this > are particularly relevant to what should be in the default install. Yes, but that's a data point to have in mind: blindly upgrading software is not always without consequences. Samuel
