| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Efrain Caro <betsemes(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Jeff Hoffmann <jeff(at)propertykey(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7 and PgSQL |
| Date: | 2000-09-30 01:07:54 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0009300304291.363-100000@peter |
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes:
> > %preupgrade
> > pg_dumpall >somewhere
> 1) You don't know that postgresql is running. It probably isn't.
Then start it.
> 2) You don't know that you have the diskspace to do that.
Changing from one storage format to another always requires 2x space
(although a text dump is usually smaller than the internal
representation). And you're not going to get the storage format to not
ever change again. :-)
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/
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