Re: BUG #5137: Upgrade policy clarification - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: BUG #5137: Upgrade policy clarification
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Msg-id 1256496674.9848.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to BUG #5137: Upgrade policy clarification  ("Peter Bengtson" <peter@peterbengtson.com>)
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On sön, 2009-10-25 at 13:52 +0000, Peter Bengtson wrote:
> It would be good if you to the page describing how a db dump is required
> only for major verson upgrades, e.g. from 8.3.x to 8.4.x but not from, say,
> 8.3.7 to 8.3.8, could add a proviso: a DB dump *is* necessary when upgrading
> from a server compiled for 32 bits even to the same version compiled for 64
> bit architectures.
>
> I recently spent about 12 hours getting my development system in order again
> after an upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard, simply because I believed
> your upgrade policy page. It would be nice if other people didn't have to go
> through that process.

Which page exactly are you talking about?

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