Re: 7.4 --> 8.0/8.1 upgrade

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:00, Chris Travers wrote:

> When I upgraded from 7.4.2 to 8.1.3, I lost the oid fields in some
> tables which caused some issues with one application.
>
> I suspect that the better path is to upgrade (without dump/reload) to
> the most recent 7.4 release and then dump/reload when upgrading to 8.1.x
> but I am not 100% sure.
>
> If you don't WANT OID's in your table (they were dropped for a reason,
> you know), then this is not a concern.

The only problems I've run into have been character set encoding issues,
which were fixed by iconv rather easily.

Since I set up the databases we used, and didn't inherit them, we don't
have any craziness like OIDs used as keys and such.  yeah!