On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:47, sh test wrote:
> Hello admins!
>
> i need to collect as much information
>
> pro/cons on a possible upgrade from
>
> 7.4 ---> 8.0/8.1 version
>
> Aside from getting our users vote on this, I wanted to ask you first
> in order to collect any possible issues one might run into from
> upgrading to such
> versions.
Downside: You gotta dump and reload, or use slony to minimize the
downtime, but you need a spare machine to do that.
Upside: Everything else. PostgreSQL 8.x series has a lot of
performance improvements.
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TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
match
