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Date:      Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:33:59 +0300
From:      Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Michael_Gr=C3=BCnewald?= <michipili@gmail.com>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, pgsql@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposal to fix postgresql package maintainance nightmare
Message-ID:  <CA%2B7WWSf%2BmYJL=Fe5cX6jnG93EgK4eaQJ4KLN1HE0-uOnsAZq5A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C35EF0A-38EF-452A-AC9D-21805F4A45DB@gmail.com>
References:  <20150721094627.GD21594@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <3C35EF0A-38EF-452A-AC9D-21805F4A45DB@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Michael Gr=C3=BCnewald <michipili@gmail.com=
> wrote:
>
>> On 21 Jul 2015, at 11:46, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> - Impossible to have tools from both old and new version at the same tim=
e (which
>> is necessary to upgrade db and prepare upgrades of db) =E2=80=A6
>
> Could not jails be used to solve these issues by running the two (=E2=80=
=A6) required versions
> in jailed environments?  There is a little bit of setup, but if by any ch=
ance you
> are using some variation of the immutable server pattern, it should stay =
very low.
>

You can't ask an average FreeBSD user who just wants to upgrade
his/her PostgreSQL installation to set up jails that would be only
used for one task. The upgrade should be achievable with just 'pkg
upgrade' without any extra work.

-Kimmo



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