Re: 7.1 Release Date

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:00:59PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Migration tools might ease the pain, sure (though I'd still recommend
> > > doing a full backup before a major version upgrade, just on safety
> > > grounds; so the savings afforded by a tool might not be all that much).
> >
> > What is needed, IMHO, is a replacement to the pg_upgrade script that can
> > do the following:
> > 1.)    Read _any_ previous version's format data files;
> > 2.)    Write the current version's data files (without a running
> > postmaster).
>
> Let me ask.  Could people who need to be up all the time dump their
> data, install PostgreSQL on another machine, load that in, then quickly
> copy the new version to the live machine and restart.  Seems like
> downtime would be minimal.

sure, i've only got 25+ gig of tables, two of which are 10+ gig each.

8^(

it certainly would be nice to have a quicker process than dump/reload.

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