[HEADS-UP] PostgreSQL 9.0.2 now in rawhide

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:52:44 pm Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:12:12 -0500,
> 
>   Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, it's intentional that the config files aren't copied, since we
> > don't have any automated way of figuring out what you changed in the
> > old versions (and just blindly dropping the old ones into the new
> > version is a bad plan).  There is a note about this in the README
> > file, but maybe that's not sufficiently visible.  Should I have the
> > "service postgresql upgrade" script tell you about it?  Usually
> > initscripts aren't supposed to be too verbose, but since this particular
> > action can only get invoked manually, maybe it's okay to do that.
> 
> I expected postgresql.conf not to get copied, but I figured that
> pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf wouldn't have changed enough between 8.4 and
> 9.0 to invalidate them.
> 
> I think it is reasonable for the upgrade service to be a bit more chatty,
> since I would expect that to be run manually and just for the update. Just
> saying to check the conf files before restarting posgres would probably be
> enough.

I honestly think that doing this in the initscripts is the wrong way to do it.  
just have a postgresql-upgrade script that someone runs. the same should be 
done of initdb also  they can then feel free to be as verbose as they need to 
be.

Dennis
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