Andrew, > If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version updater > (i.e. migrate a > 7.4 database to 8.0 without an initdb), any suggestions on where to > poke first? Does a > catalog/list of system catalog changes exist anywhere? Any really gross > problems immediately > present themselves? Is dusting off pg_upgrade a good place to start, or > is that a dead end?
Join the Slony project? Seriously, this is one of the uses of slony. All you'd need would be a script that would: 1) Install PG 8.0 to an alternate directory; 2) Start 8.0; 3) install Slony on both instances (the 7.4 and the 8.0); 4) make 7.4 the "master" and start replicating 5) when 8.0 is caught up, stop 7.4 and promote it to Master 6) turn off Slony. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])