[Pkg-postgresql-public] Slony upgrade path

[Gerfried Fuchs]

	Hi!

* Peter Eisentraut <petere at debian.org> [2009-11-27 22:01:58 CET]:
> Obviously, I'm not going to try any automated custom in-place upgrades
> of replication clusters. ;-)  The approach is going to be more like
> packaging both side-by-side.

 And offering additional documentation in the sense of README.Debian (or
even NEWS.Debian?) to ease the path. I know, stating the obvious. ;)

> So a complete upgrade path from lenny PG 8.3 + Slony 1.2 might be:
> 
> 1. Upgrade Debian to squeeze; installs postgresql-8.4 and
> postgresql-8.4-slony1-1 etc.
> 
> 2. Migrate PostgreSQL from 8.3 to 8.4 (perhaps using slony).
> 
> 3. Upgrade Slony setup from 1.2 to 2.0 during squeeze lifetime.
> 
> Comments?  Other ideas?

 Sounds extremely reasonable and useful to me. Additionally getting in
contact with the release team to have it in the release notes will be
also something that should be done.

 Thanks!
Rhonda