Re: 7.4 --> 8.0/8.1 upgrade

On Mar 28, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:47, sh test wrote:
>> Hello admins!
>>
>> i need to collect as much information
>>
>> pro/cons on a possible upgrade from
>>
>> 7.4 ---> 8.0/8.1 version
>>
>> Aside from getting our users vote on this, I wanted to ask you first
>> in order to collect any possible issues one might run into from
>> upgrading to such
>> versions.
>
> Downside: You gotta dump and reload, or use slony to minimize the
> downtime, but you need a spare machine to do that.

Actually, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to use slony to
upgrade on the same machine, provided that machine has enough
resources to run two installs of PostgreSQL and the databases
simultaneously.
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