From: | Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1(at)burntmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Running 9 in production? Sticking with 8.4.4 for a while? |
Date: | 2010-09-28 22:14:36 |
Message-ID: | 4CA268CC.8090300@burntmail.com |
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On 9/28/2010 4:45 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Tory M Blue wrote:
>> I'm doing an OS upgrade and have been sitting on 8.4.3 for sometime. I
>> was wondering if it's better for the short term just to bring things
>> to 8.4.4 and let 9.0 bake a bit longer, or are people with large data
>> sets running 9.0 in production already?
>
> I'm aware of two people with large data sets who have been running 9.0
> in production since it was in beta. Like most code, what you have to
> consider is how much the code path you expect to use each day has been
> modified during the previous release. If you're using 9.0 as "a better
> 8.4", the odds of your running into a problem are on the low side of the
> risk curve. But those using the features that are both new and were
> worked on until the very end of the development cycle, like the new
> replication features, they are much more likely to run into a bug.
A conservative approach is never to use version x.0 of *anything*. The
PG developers are very talented (and also very helpful on these mailing
lists - thanks for that), but they are human. For work I'm paid to do
(as opposed to my own or charity work), I like to stay at least one
point release behind the bleeding edge.
--
Guy Rouillier
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