I'm in the same boat Rod, but I'm also going to upgrade my postgres.  Don't 
know if it
much matters, but my plan is to stop mail services, do a dump of the database, 
alter
the dump so the new table will be created with bytea, then do a restore.  My 
calculations
are that will take 4.5 hours total.  At which time I can be back up and running 
then
create the message caches and upgrade to 2.2 dbmail.
 
For reference I have a 32G message store currently.
 
--
David

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rod K
Sent: Fri 12/8/2006 10:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [Dbmail] postgresql migrate 2.0 to 2.2


Paul J Stevens wrote: 

        Rod K wrote:
          

                But I should still stop all services before running Step 4, 
correct?
                    

        To be safe: yes. If you don't and still get away with it; let us know 
:-)
        
          

LOL, I'm done being a guinea pig!  Tests show that was only 4.5 hours (bytea 
conversion I mean) and I can live with that.  But dbmail-util -by took 12+ and 
I can't leave with a total down time of over 18 hours so it's good to know I 
can run that without shutting down, even if it has to be run twice.

Thanks for your help.

Rod

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