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