Re: Upgrade 7.4 to 8.1 or 8.2?

No I cannot risk live data...

But I (think I) read that 8.2 was expected to go final in November/December.

So my question was is it worth waiting for 8.2 final or to go with 8.1.5
now. I guess going with 8.1.5 is what we should do.

Thanks

John

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 10/20/06 10:09, John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
>> We're looking to upgrade from 7.4 - should we go to 8.1.5 or 8.2?
>>
>> We have two databases; 7.4.6 and 7.4.11 in a master slave config using
>> Slony. Both databases use the C locale with UTF-8 encoding on unix.
>>
>> We've dumped and loaded the data into an 8.1.4 database and have seen no
>> problems with invalid UTF-8 sequences. So we're fairly happy that we can
>> upgrade to 8.1.5 pretty easily using Slony.
>>
>> We're really looking for some extra performance right now.
>>
>> Are the differences between 8.1.5 and 8.2 significant? Is 8.2 more about
>> speed or new features?
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> 8.2 is not released yet.  Can you risk your app on beta software?
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