Re: pg_upgrade across more than two neighboring major releases

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, hhorak(at)redhat(dot)com
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade across more than two neighboring major releases
Date: 2013-07-23 12:48:16
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQXHFvmoabJj_m-5_Hs4iqakR64=cbTca4jbjhunUB4Vw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:

> Is pg_upgrade supposed to work even across multiple major releases? (I
> know
> that the README.rpm-dist is mentioning just one major release step, but it
> could be bound just to actual pg_upgrade which is packaged..)
>
Yes you should be able to do a one-step upgrade as long as you update from
at least a 8.3 server. There are some restrictions depending on the server
version that is going to be upgraded though, you can have a look at the
documentation for more details here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgupgrade.html

Thanks,
--
Michael

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