On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:28 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > OTOH, we know what apps talk to Pg, and we'll have tested them > thoroughly. The failures could come from data that breaks during > migration - so if an 8.3 to 8.4 migration fails to complete we keep > running on Pg 8.3, and write a log. So to which directory do you want us to get backup? What if it is filled in the middle of dumping? We have some customers that has hundreds GB of data -- can you imagine how long will the dump take? During the dump, we have do shutdown (actually don't allow anyone else than localhost/Unix domain sockets) PostgreSQL in order to be able to migrate correctly. It will be really painful. PostgreSQL project has Slony-I to be used in such migrations (almost) without downtime. So, IMHO what Fedora should do is to be able to install many versions in parallel, and leave the rest of DBA work to the users. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org
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