On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:26:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > replies I will rather quickly redirect to /dev/null, as it isn't Red Hat's > > fault we can't do a sane upgrade. > > I think you're wasting your time trying to hold us to a higher standard > of backwards-compatibility than is maintained by the OSes and tools we > must sit on top of.
Case in point: even though the Debian upgrade scripts have occasionally given me a near-heart attack by claiming that they didn't succcessfully upgrade when they did, I've never had this problem. Is this because Oliver is smarter than you? Or Debian is 'superior'? No, it's because _incremental upgradability_ is _the_ design goal for the Debian distribution. Lots of other stuff may work better on RedHat (auto hardware detection, etc.) but this is the design case for Debian, so the facilities are mostly there for Oliver to use to do incremental, rollbackable, upgrades. What does that mean for PostgreSQL? Perhaps Tom's right: you can't fix it in the program if the underlying system doesn't support it. Ross ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
