Re: [GENERAL] Considering an upgrade...

2005-10-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 06:15:36PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > > IIRC Slony wont run on anything < 7.3.6, so you would have to do an in place > upgrade to 7.3.x as appropriate, and then you could set up slony to propogate > to the 8.x system. You should do that anyway, because on older release

Re: [GENERAL] Considering an upgrade...

2005-10-12 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 14:59, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:50, Gary Horton wrote: > > I'm needing to convince my boss that we should upgrade from 7.3.4 to > > 8.x Postgresql. I've already enumerated the upsides, but now we need > > to consider the risks...I wonder if anyone c

Re: [GENERAL] Considering an upgrade...

2005-10-11 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 11, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Florian G. Pflug wrote: On the whole, the update as quite easy ride, but I'd still recommend you to test all aspects of your software after the migration, since 8.0 isn't bug-for-bug compatible with 7.4 I'll second this. One thing we found out too, was we al

Re: [GENERAL] Considering an upgrade...

2005-10-11 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Gary Horton wrote: I'm needing to convince my boss that we should upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.x Postgresql. I've already enumerated the upsides, but now we need to consider the risks...I wonder if anyone can mention/summarize any issues, problems, gotchas, etc. that have happened in anyone's upgrad

Re: [GENERAL] Considering an upgrade...

2005-10-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:50, Gary Horton wrote: > I'm needing to convince my boss that we should upgrade from 7.3.4 to > 8.x Postgresql. I've already enumerated the upsides, but now we need > to consider the risks...I wonder if anyone can mention/summarize any > issues, problems, gotchas, etc. that

Re: [GENERAL] Considering an upgrade...

2005-10-11 Thread Tony Caduto
Hi, I did a bunch of updates from databases that where on 7.4 and there were no issues at all. You could always setup a test server on win32,linux or whatever and simply restore one of your databases and see how it goes. Tony Caduto AM Software Design Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresq

[GENERAL] Considering an upgrade...

2005-10-11 Thread Gary Horton
I'm needing to convince my boss that we should upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.x Postgresql. I've already enumerated the upsides, but now we need to consider the risks...I wonder if anyone can mention/summarize any issues, problems, gotchas, etc. that have happened in anyone's upgrade from 7.x to 8.x .