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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org