Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading with WALs

2008-07-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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 ver

[ADMIN] Upgrading with WALs

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Bovitz
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 w