Am 10.06.2010 03:35, schrieb Bruce Momjian: > Robert Haas wrote: >>> I think users would rather have the restore fail, and know right away >>> they have an issue, than to do the upgrade, and find out later that some >>> of their application queries fail and they need to run around fixing >>> them. ?(FYI, pg_upgrade would use the new pg_dump and would not fail.) >>> >>> In a way, the fact that the restore fails can be seen as a feature --- >>> they get the error before the go live on 8.4. ?(Yeah, I am serious.) >> >> Eeh, I've had this happen to me on earlier releases, and it didn't >> feel like a feature to me. YMMV, of course. > > Would you have preferred later application failure?
Yes! Since this would at least solve one issue: migrating the data. And if the application is developed elsewhere, it should be fixed when I'm upgrading. -- Schönen Gruß - Regards Hartmut Goebel Dipl.-Informatiker (univ.), CISSP, CSSLP Goebel Consult Spezialist für IT-Sicherheit in komplexen Umgebungen http://www.goebel-consult.de Monatliche Kolumne: http://www.cissp-gefluester.de/ Goebel Consult mit Mitglied bei http://www.7-it.de
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