On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:03 -0500, Chris Bovitz wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, we are doing major upgrades to our database > servers from 8.1.3 which necessitates the use of pg_dumpall. But what > do we do with the WALs? Should we delete them? Or should we leave them > there, and the new version of PostgreSQL will pick up where they left > off? Should we turn off WAL archiving while rebuilding the database > with the pg_dumpall output?
You can not use one cluster on top of the other. Once you have the new PostgreSQL installation upgraded you would remove your old one. E.g; this will be an outage, you can not do it online (without something like SlonY0. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Thanks again. > > > Chris > -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
