Re: version upgrade

On Sep 1, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

> From my perspective, anyone who is running a 100GB, 
> can't-be-down-for-a-day
> database and does not have more than 100GB free and/or a hot swap 
> server has
> some *serious* priority problems.

Well, 100GB maybe excessive for this example. but I'm sure there are 
plenty of running-on-a-shoe-string shops that don't have DB x 2 space 
avail.  Then again, those places are very likely the ones who will not 
be upgrading.

but this isn't a problem specific to PG.. all db's suffer from it.. and 
slony so far seems to provide the easiest, safest path for a PG 
upgrade... in my case the problem is I do have another server with 
plenty of room, but it doesn't have much CPU or RAM and cannot handle 
the volume of live traffic the master gets.  So I have no choice but to 
plead my case and ask for some downtime.  oh well.

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