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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: reduce downtime when upgrading 7.3 -> 7.4
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In response to reduce downtime when upgrading 7.3 -> 7.4  (Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>)
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Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
> The most obvious question is, can we use pg_upgrade from contrib? It seems
> not to have been updated since 7.3, and is generally documented as
> untested.

"Guaranteed not to work" is more like it.  I have some ambitions of
rewriting it for future releases, but don't even think of going there
at the moment.

            regards, tom lane

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