Re: Upgrade Information

At 01:53 PM 2/8/02 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Naomi Walker wrote:
> > We are currently using Postgresql 7.1.2, running on a E3500 server, OS
> > Solaris 2.6. We would like to upgrade to postgresql 7.2.
> >
> > 1) Do you all consider it stable enough now to upgrade?
> >
> > 2) If I understand correctly, to upgrade, step would be:
> >
> >            a) pg_dumpall
> >            b) reset PGHOME to new version of postgresql
> >            c) pg_restore
> >
> > Is this correct?
> >
> > If so, that seems pretty drastic.  I cannot imagine that once our
> databases
> > start getting really huge that this will last as an upgrade method.  I
> > thought we would be using pg_upgrade, but I see a note that it will not
> > work with versions of postgres 7.1 and higher.
> >
> > Why did pg_upgrade go away, and can we look forward to one in the future?
>
>It is in /contrib/pg_upgrade now and it does work for 7.1 upgrades,
>though it is only lightly tested.

Bruce, are you saying I can use /contrib/pg_upgrade for my 7.1.2 to 7.2
upgrade?



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