Re: Considering an upgrade...

Hi,
I did a bunch of updates from databases that where on 7.4 and there were
no issues at all.

You could always setup a test server on win32,linux or whatever and
simply restore one of your databases and see how it goes.

Tony Caduto
AM Software Design
Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresql 8.x
http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com


Gary Horton wrote:

> I'm needing to convince my boss that we should upgrade from 7.3.4 to
> 8.x Postgresql. I've already enumerated the upsides, but now we need
> to consider the risks...I wonder if anyone can mention/summarize any
> issues, problems, gotchas, etc. that have happened in anyone's upgrade
> from 7.x to 8.x ... this would be greatly appreciated. For that
> matter, if there are any benefits people have seen in addition to
> what's mentioned on postgres website, this would be good info too.
>
> We are on a Solaris system (including customers with sol 8, 9, and
> 10), running 7.3.4.  Thanks in advance ... and if you would, please cc
> me at my email address since I'm not subscribed to this alias.
>
> - Gary Horton