[Dbconfig-common-devel] Difficult/partial upgrade

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:01:18PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:

> > Hm, why not simply DROP the offending INDEXe before
> > (re)-creating them and ignoring errors on the drop ?
> 
> > After all, the worst that might happen is that while the
> > INDEXs are briefly unavailable some queries would run slower
> > than normal ...
> 
> Unfortunately, I have  to deal with partial upgrades as  well. If a user
> already upgraded to  0.5-1 and had a problems  with indexes, some tables
> may not have been created.

Ugh. I see.

That is why GNUmed checksums the schema before and after upgrade.

Karsten
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