Re: Release notes for upgrading

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 01:11, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:57, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>>> I don't think many users realise they can use the next version's pg_dump
>>>> to upgrade.  I think it should be put in every release notes!
>>
>>> Assuming we're not ready to recommend Slony for upgrades, I would second this
>>> idea based on my experience of several cases where I *had* to dump a database
>>> using the newer pg_dump to get it to upgrade reliably.
>>
>> This has been standard lore for awhile.  Where should we document it
>> exactly?
>>
>
> Actually it seems it is already mentioned in
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-upgrading.html and
> somewhat inferred in
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/migration.html
>
> I'll take a swing at making the language a little stronger. We could
> also add it as a mailing list hint.  Chris, you have any other ideas
> where you would like to see it?

Exact text you'd like to have added?


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