On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:54:30PM +0100, Andy Shellam wrote:
> QUOTE:
> Exactly this issue and that you have to make a 'full' dump/restore
> between major release is a big minus I hear everywhere I
> explain/discuss about postgres for 24/7 and big databases.
> END QUOTE
>
> Yes but how often does a major release come out? 17th Jan 2005 was the
> first date of 8.0 according to the FTP site, with 8.1 out in November 2005.
> If it takes a whole day to do a dump/restore, that's only one day out of
> about 270 or more.
Uh, for many sites minutes of downtime would be a huge issue, let alone
hours.
Fortunately, you can use Slony to migrate between versions, greatly
reducing downtime.
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