Re: In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2008, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
>> I note in the blog that the "in place upgrade" issue came up.
>> (Interesting to observe that it *also* came up pretty prominently in
>> the intro session at PG East...  This is obviously a matter of Not
>> Inconsiderable Interest...)
>
> Upgrades are certainly the biggest PostgreSQL operational issue for me.
>
> Uhh, boss, I need to bring the database down for 3 days to do an upgrade.
> Yes, that means clients can't do anything during that time. Boss - !!@#@#$#
>
> Hence why I'm still running 8.1 ....

What about the:

8.1 -> slony -> 8.3
switch users to 8.3 databases

solution.

--
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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