Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

[James Le Cuirot]

On Thu, 2021-11-25 at 18:01 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> > https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.34-r2.ebuild#L643
>
> Would you see something like this on more ebuilds, postgres, mysql,
> elasticsearch, or have proper FEATURE flag for it instead?

I don't think there's any need for this with PostgreSQL. The major versions
are slotted, similar to MariaDB, but the data itself is also installed into
versioned locations. Migrating usually involves copying the data to the new
location.