Re: Postgres 8.3.x upgrade

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Jessica Richard
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:51 AM
> To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [ADMIN] Postgres 8.3.x upgrade
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FYI, we should point people here to explain upgrades:

http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning

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> We are going to upgrade our Postgres servers (most 8.2.9 and some 8.2.4) to
> the 8.3.x version.
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> >From the postgres web site, I can see the 8.3.5 is the latest version.
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> Question for people who have been on 8.3.5:
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> Is 8.3.5 very safe to use (no major new bugs)? Is it really better than the
> older versions of the 8.3.X families?
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> Thanks a lot,
> Jessica
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> Yes, we've been using it for a few months, and it's fine. You *ALWAYS* want
> to be using the latest
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> version within the series. The PostgreSQL project releases those to fix
> bugs.
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