On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:34:53PM -0700, Tomeh, Husam wrote:

>  I strongly disagree with you. Any decent RDBMS such as Postgres
>  should and I think will have eventually a decent upgrade and
>  migration tool rather than using the conventional time-consuming
>  dump and reload. What if your db is in terabyte size like many
>  enterprise-level ones nowadays!  I think this an essential tool
>  for enterprise postgres implementations.

This has exactly nothing to do with where the source code for the
tool is available.  Every decent UNIX has a vi editor.  The source
repositories are nevertheless unlikely to be the same.

The difference in this area between commercial tools (which have to
deliver you a complete package that appears to you to be one thing,
even if the components are actually developed by people who report to
different bosses) and free software like PostgreSQL is that in free
software projects, you get to see the plumbing of how those tools fit
together.  Things are not more or less supported because of which
source repository they live.  They're more or less supported on the
basis of community involvement.

A


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