Kenneth Downs wrote:
AFAIK it has always been the case that you should expect to have to dump out your databases and reload them for version upgrades.Is anybody over at the dev team considering what an onerous burden this is? Is anyone considering doing away with it?
Far from trivial. You have changes in on-disk formats and actual functionality between major version numbers. For instance - what would you do to deal with the recent changes in unicode validation?
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
