Re: Mediawiki 1.10 and PG 8.3 upgrade

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> If upgrading MediaWiki to a version that supports postgres 8.3,
> another option could be to export from the old db as XML (using the
> Special:Export page)

You can also use the dumpBackup.php tool in the maintenance directory.
The XML this dumped does not include the mwusers table, so it's
not entirely helpful.

I spoke too soon when I said earlier all one needs is php update.php.
There are some serious tsearch2 issues that prevent you from dumping
the old database and importing into the new version, even with the
tsearch2 compatibility stuff. I'm creating some workarounds, and
will report back. Doing a --data-only dump and creating the schema
anew from maintenance/postgres/tables.sql should work, although
not if you've made any schema changes, obviously.


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