Hi,
If the downtime is a concern, you could use Slony-1 for the migration.
Philippe Ferreira.
>pobox@verysmall.org napisał(a):
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>>Could anybody point to an on-line resource about the steps involved with
>>upgrading of PostgreSQL 8.x on a production FreeBSD 5.4 with minimum
>>downtime (i.e. 1 - stop db so that no changes happen 2 - dump 3 -
>>upgrade (ports) 4 - import 5- start db).
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>here you are:
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/migration.html
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>If both PostgreSQL versions can't coexist on one host, you can use
>another one, with possibly identical setup (HW/OS/etc) for the
>migration, and transfer (use tar + netcat for minimal downtime) the
>cluster afterwards.
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