On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >With 7.4 I'm finding upgrading to be easier. I'll likely upgrade out > >production servers to 7.4.0 when it comes out and wind up skipping 7.3 > >altogether. > > > > > > Sure but I talking about people who are running 7.3 and are happy with > it. The reality is that for probably 95% of the people > out there , there is no reason for 7.4. When you have existing system > that works... why upgrade? That is one of the benefits > of Open Source stuff, we no longer get force into un-needed upgrade cycles.
Agreed, we've been on 7.2 for a while now because it just works. The regex substring introduced in 7.3 was a pretty cool feature, for instance, that makes life easy. > When you deal with the systems I do, the cost to a customer to migrate > to 7.4 would be in the minimum of 10,000-20,000 dollars. > They start to ask why were upgrading with those numbers. then maybe they would be willing to donate some small amount each ($500 or so) to pay for backporting issues. Since mostly what I'd want on an older version would be bug / security fixes, that $500 should go a long way towards backporting. > That is not to say that 7.4 is not worth it from a technical sense but > for my customers, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a mantra and > the reality is that 7.3 is not broke in their minds. There is > limitations pg_dump/pg_restore has some issues, having to reindex the > database > (which 7.4 doesn't fix), vacuum (which 7.4 doesn't fix) but my customers > accept them as that. I was under the imporession that 7.4 removed the need to reindex caused by monotonically increasing index keys, no? > Your mileage may vary but I can only talk from my experience. Yeah, I would rather have had more back porting to 7.2 because there were tons of little improvements form 7.2 to 7.3 I could have used while waiting for 7.4's improved pg_dumpall to come along. Cheers:-) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
