MySQL 4.1

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Thu Jan 23 22:51:23 UTC 2003


> In fact, it's a downright pain in the ass with PgSQL; minor version number
> upgrades (7.1 -> 7.2) require full dumps/restores of the database, and any
> complex table changes require... badness. This is probably because either
> a) the Postgres documentation is so bad, I'm doing something wrong, or b)
> they use triggers and other "real DB fu", so it's more difficult than in
> MySQL.

If this were true, this would suck mightily - Bugzilla's entire upgrade 
strategy (checksetup.pl) relies on being able to tweak the schema.

Gerv




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