[Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql 8.2 packaging

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Mon Mar 2 13:21:51 UTC 2009


Hello Peter,

Peter Eisentraut [2009-03-02 11:03 +0200]:
> Btw., there is another matter that we need to think about for the 
> future.  PostgreSQL 8.4 will probably have in-place upgrade support. 
> But that (probably) only works for upgrading to the next release.

What does that mean in particular? An 8.5 server can understand the
data directory of 8.4 and upgrade it on the fly? But it doesn't
understand 8.3?

If that's planned anyway, why is it significantly more difficult to
keep backwards compatibility for more releases?

Thanks,

Martin
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