Re: Major upgrade advice

Just to mention one issue we had here:

In 8.1 we did this to retrieve all data from a specific date:
SELECT * FROM xxx
WHERE <timestamp_column> LIKE '2008-05-20%'

In 8.3 we had to change to:
SELECT * FROM xxx
WHERE <timestamp_column> >= CAST('2008-05-20' as timestamp) AND
<timestamp_column> < CAST('2008-05-21' as timestamp)

Regards
Roberto Garcia

Steve Crawford wrote:
> I'm getting ready to tackle another upgrade: 7.4.6 -> 8.3.3. The
> preliminaries (development/testing) look good but I'd like
> suggestions/warnings/comments on:
>
> 1. Removing OIDs on user tables.
>
> I don't see any dump or restore options to remove OIDs. Am I better
> off modifying the dump to alter the "SET default_with_oids = true;"
> lines or going through all the user tables in advance and running
> "ALTER TABLE ... SET WITHOUT OIDS"? Other options?
>
> 2. Alter encoding from C to utf8.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>

Roberto Garcia
Banco de Dados, MSc
Fone: (12) 3186-8405
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