[sr-dev] version of s tables

[Juha Heinanen]

Martin Hoffmann writes:

 > I don't quite follow. Shouldn't it be good enough if your administrator
 > knows these things and acts accordingly? More often than not you will
 > have some integration with some back-office system and there will be a
 > complex dance on every upgrade, anyhow.

i don't know about that, but for each upgrade to next version, i have an
upgrade script that upgrades all db tables.

 > Naturally, you can use as many tables on the side as you want. What bugs
 > me is that S[E]R insists on reading the versions and quietly (well, sort
 > of. The -c option doesn't catch this and you only find out when it
 > doesn't come up after the restart command. At which point the clock is
 > ticking) dies.

i would be very easy to call a db version checking script together with
-c option check in the init file.

-- juha