Re: please suggest i need to test my upgrade

From: Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: please suggest i need to test my upgrade
Date: 2013-08-19 17:42:07
Message-ID: CALd+dcdSrxZVqBd72KB9Lm7Lc4JGHQFvkuV4Y074bVLv9s=VpQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>wrote:

>
> This is the first thing that comes to mind:
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> http://petereisentraut.blogspot.co.at/2008/03/readding-implicit-casts-in-postgresql.html
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>
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> But you may encounter other incompatibilities.
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> Read the release nots of all major releases between 8.2 and 9.1,
> but most of all, test your application well.
>

Our application has moved from Pg 7.1 thru various releases over the years
to the current 9.2. The implicit cast issue and the default representation
of bytea columns are the only thing that have required our application to
change.

Any reason you're not moving to 9.2 instead of 9.1?

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