Re: Speaking of upgrades... (was Re: Predicted ...) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Speaking of upgrades... (was Re: Predicted ...)
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Msg-id 200701270212.l0R2CgQ24785@momjian.us
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In response to Speaking of upgrades... (was Re: Predicted ...)  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> > There is no set time frame planned that I know of.
> >
> > It is more a matter of users that keep the old versions alive. Some with
> > large datasets on busy servers that can't allocate enough downtime to
> > upgrade tend to be keeping the older versions running.
>
> How much does the on-disk structure of *existing* tables and indexes
> change between x.y versions?
>
> Between, for example, 8.0 and 8.2?

Yes:

    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/migration.html

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