Re: Migrate postgres to newer hardware

From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com>
Cc: Renato Oliveira <renato(dot)oliveira(at)grant(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Migrate postgres to newer hardware
Date: 2010-04-05 12:29:57
Message-ID: 1270470597.19810.2.camel@bnicholson-desktop
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On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 09:58 +0200, Iñigo Martinez Lasala wrote:
> I've never worked with Bucardo and Londiste, so I cannot give you any
> hint about it.
> With slony it's not necessary to restore all database prior staring
> sync process. You only have to restore your schema but not data. Slony
> will keep them synced with source server.
>
> Anyway, if you plan to migrate to 8.4 there are some issues with
> slony. For 8.3 and higher, you will go with slony 2.X. For 8.2 with
> slony 1.X
> I'm not sure if Slony 1.x is compatible with Postgres >= 8.3, but I'm
> sure slony 2.x is not backwards compatible.

Slony 1.2.17 and higher is compatible with PG 8.4. I'd go with the
latest stable release though.

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Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.

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