[bind10-dev] #1376 will require upgrading sqlite3 database file

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:41:01 +0100,
Shane Kerr <shane at isc.org> wrote:

> > So my suggestion is to provide a separate python script or something
> > to upgrade the database file and ask the user to run it before
> > upgrading BIND 10 itself.  We'll eventually (after several snapshot
> > releases maybe) remove this script from the tar ball.
> 
> > Opinions?
> 
> I think we need a utility for this. Here is a ticket I made 6 months ago
> with my thoughts on this:
> 
> http://bind10.isc.org/ticket/963
> 
> :)
> 
> I was in favor of automatic upgrades because I have systems that do it
> and it's nice, but realistically it can cause major problems if done on
> a large system. Think of the poor administrator who's system does a
> database upgrade taking 6 hours after an upgrade... "automatically". :(

We'll eventually need more sophisticated way...at a higher level that
would be "some magic" that requires the administrator as few things as
possible while still preventing system disruption.

But in this specific context my question was more about a short term
workaround for the coming release.  And it was implemented in #1404
and has been merged to master.

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JINMEI, Tatuya