Re: Migrate postgres to newer hardware

That is very true and well pointed out.

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From: Brad Nicholson [mailto:bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info]
Sent: 30 March 2010 15:38
To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala
Cc: Renato Oliveira; pgsql-admin
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Migrate postgres to newer hardware

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 16:29 +0200, Iñigo Martinez Lasala wrote:
> Hi Renato.
>
> I would follow the ancient method: perform a pg_dump / pg_restore

This is the easiest approach. The problem is that a lot of people have
contractual SLA's that do not allow them to take their systems down long
enough to do a dump and restore upgrade.

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

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