Alan Hodgson wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2008, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
>> I note in the blog that the "in place upgrade" issue came up.
>> (Interesting to observe that it *also* came up pretty prominently in
>> the intro session at PG East... This is obviously a matter of Not
>> Inconsiderable Interest...)
>
> Upgrades are certainly the biggest PostgreSQL operational issue for me.
>
> Uhh, boss, I need to bring the database down for 3 days to do an upgrade.
> Yes, that means clients can't do anything during that time. Boss - !!@#@#$#
>
> Hence why I'm still running 8.1 ....
What about the:
8.1 -> slony -> 8.3
switch users to 8.3 databases
solution.
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Until later, Geoffrey
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