Re: For production: 8.4 or 8.3? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 22:48 +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Tory M Blue wrote on 27.07.2009 22:45:
> > And those that have multiple TB's of data, weee another dump and
> > restore upgrade (pfffft!!!!!)
>
> Isn't that what pg_migrator is for?

It depends, 8.3 and 8.4 are not compatible by default (because of
--integer-datetimes). So, yeah if you are running Debian/Ubuntu but if
you are running Cent/RH with the defaults, pg_migrator isn't going to
work unless you compile Pg from source.

Joshua D. Drake

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