On 15 August 2010 15:38, Scott Marlowe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Thom Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 15 August 2010 10:38, Thom Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Another thing I noticed, going back to >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/backup-file.html , is >>> that it makes no mention of the fact that file system level backups >>> are useless if being used to restore in a different major version. >>> Maybe "There are two restrictions, however, which make this method >>> impractical, or at least inferior to the pg_dump method" should be >>> changed to "There are three..." and add the point that >>> pg_dump/pg_dumpall is mostly immune to such limitations. >>> >> >> In the docs for version 9.0, I think the following from >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/migration.html should be >> updated to make mention of streaming replication: > > But you can't use streaming replication for migration... >
Hmm... yes, that's referring to migration to a new major version. Ignore the streaming replication comment. -- Thom Brown Registered Linux user: #516935 -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
