Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> >>> There are several pg_migrator limitations that appeared late in the 8.4
> >> >>> development cycle and were impossible to fix at that point. ?I would
> >> >>> like to fix them for Postgres 8.5:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ? ? ? ? o ?a user-defined composite data type
> >> >>> ? ? ? ? o ?a user-defined array data type
> >> >>> ? ? ? ? o ?a user-defined enum data type
> >> >>
> >> >> FYI, these pg_migrator restrictions are now gone when migrating to PG
> >> >> 8.5, even _from_ PG 8.3.
> >> >
> >> > Wow, cool. ?That seems like a good step forward.
> >>
> >> It appears that the pg_migrator README needs a bit of revision to make
> >> it more clear which limitations apply to migration between which
> >> versions. ?In particular, the current wording suggests that NONE of
> >> the limitations apply to 8.3 -> 8.5 migrations, which is not the case
> >> - e.g. we haven't done anything about the need to rebuild certain
> >> types of indices.
> >
> > Very true. I have just made a new pg_migrator release with an updated
> > README file.
>
> Ah, cool. So this seems to imply that a migration from 8.4 to 8.5
> should be clear sailing. Is that correct?
Yes, so far.
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