Re: 7.1 Release Date - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim Mercer
Subject Re: 7.1 Release Date
Date
Msg-id 20001016123338.G15903@reptiles.org
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In response to Re: 7.1 Release Date  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:18:15PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Let me ask.  Could people who need to be up all the time dump their
> > > data, install PostgreSQL on another machine, load that in, then quickly
> > > copy the new version to the live machine and restart.  Seems like
> > > downtime would be minimal.
> >
> > sure, i've only got 25+ gig of tables, two of which are 10+ gig each.
> >
> > 8^(
> >
> > it certainly would be nice to have a quicker process than dump/reload.
>
> I see.  Hmmm.

oh, forgot to mention that some of my indexes take 2+ hours to rebuild
from scratch.

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