Mason Hale wrote:
> So, I'm fishing to see of there are alternatives to taking our
> production database down for 6+ hours do this upgrade. Can slony or
> wal files be of help here?

Slony can, but WAL files will not work between different versions.

> Also -- due to hardware limitations, we need to install 8.2.x on the
> same hardware 8.1.5 is currently running on. Can those two versions
> exist side-by-side?

Sure.  Just set a different port and different data directory.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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