On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Josh Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Also, are there any major gotcha's I should be concerned about in terms > of file formats between versions. If we start importing data using the > 0.8 branch, how hard will an upgrade to 0.9 be? The reason I ask is > that I am dealing with about 300 GB of data. If the upgrade process > will require running some conversion process over the old tables, I > would like to start putting together some estimate of how much time that > will require. > The most efficient way to upgrade file-formats is via replication or dump/load, both of which work over HTTP. I'd recommend using current trunk, and then freezing to the 0.9 branch when we release it, if you want to avoid format conversions. -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
