On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:06:39 -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Perhaps you should go back and study what
>pg_upgrade actually did.

Thanks for the friendly invitation.  I did that.  

>  It needed only minimal assumptions about the
>format of either old or new catalogs.  The reason is that it mostly
>relied on portability work done elsewhere (in pg_dump, for example).

I was hoping that you had a more abstract concept in mind when you
said pg_upgrade; not that particular implementation.  I should have
been more explicit that I'm not a friend of that pg_dump approach, cf.
my other mail.

>> Rod's adddepend is a good example.
>I don't think it's representative.

>> ... I wouldn't call it perfect
>... in other words, it doesn't work and can't be made to work.

Hmm, "not perfect" == "can't be made to work".  Ok.  If you want to
see it this way ...

Servus
 Manfred

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