Re: Help related to Postgresql for RHEL 6.5

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: "Yogesh(dot) Sharma" <Yogesh1(dot)Sharma(at)nectechnologies(dot)in>, David G Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Help related to Postgresql for RHEL 6.5
Date: 2014-08-29 15:09:00
Message-ID: 5400978C.2090608@aklaver.com
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On 08/28/2014 09:14 PM, Yogesh. Sharma wrote:
> Dear David,
>
>> Are you currently using PostgreSQL?
> Currently we are using PostgreSQL 8.1.18 version on RHEL 5.8.
> Now we plan to update this to PostgreSQL 9.0 version with RHEL6.5. As in verion 9.0 I found least Compatibilities.

So what are the things you are concerned about?

>
> So, please guide me.

If you are going from 8.1 to any supported version you will be dealing
with the type casting changes introduced in 8.3

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/release-8-3.html

E.97.2.1. General

Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT
(Peter, Tom)

I would spend some time testing that.

>
> Regards,
> Yogesh

>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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