On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:47:01PM +0200, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> These deals naturally must be performed by an DBA rather than any
> automated script.

Strongly seconded. Besides the technical problems involved, this is
a very bad adminstrative choice.

I would imediately drop any package system that
fidles with my database content automagically in such situations.

Martin