On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:50, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: > > Small soapbox moment here... > > > > ANYTHING that can be done to eliminate having to do an initdb on > > version changes would make a lot of people do cartwheels. 'Do a > > dump/reload' sometimes comes across a bit casually on the lists (my > > apologies if it isn't meant to be), but it can be be incredibly onerous > > to do on a large production system. That's probably why you run across > > people running stupid-old versions. > > And this will become even more of an issue as it's PG's popularity > grows with large and 24x7 databases.
And dump/reload isn't always such a casual operation to do. I initialise a database from dump but I have to fiddle the sql on the reload to make it work. The odd thing is I never thought it a bug, just something to work around, until someone else has been persuing it on the list as one (it's the create schema thing). -- Nigel J. Andrews ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
