Re: Success (Re: page 1 of relation global/11787 was uninitialized)

Florian Pflug wrote:
>> I used this to upgrade to 9.0.13, which indeed is fully compatible with
>> Debian.  It started up like a charm.  I can upgrade it to 9.1.9 now
>> (while I'm at it).

>Since you've been running with full_page_writes=off, I suggest you update
>to 9.1 by dumping and reloading your data (i.e. pg_dumpall) instead of
>via binary upgrades (i.e. pg_upgrade).

I need to do that anyway, since the pg_upgradecluster script of Debian
(or is it a native PostgreSQL script?) does not support tablespaces.

>That way, you can be sure that your data is consistent (from postgres'
>POV anyway) after the upgrade. pg_upgrade OTOH will only notice
>inconsistencies in the system tables, since the data files of user tables
>and indices are simply copied unchanged.

Good point.  Thanks.
-- 
Stephen.