Re: Tips for upgrading from 7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rick Schumeyer
Subject Re: Tips for upgrading from 7.4
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Msg-id 47976575.80700@ieee.org
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In response to Re: Tips for upgrading from 7.4  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Rick Schumeyer <rschumeyer@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> I'm working with someone who is about to upgrade from (I believe) pg 7.4
>> to pg 8.1.
>>
>
>
>> What would be the best resource to read to look for "gotchas"?  Release
>> notes?  At the moment, we don't care about performance problems, only
>> things that might break.
>>
>
> Reading the release notes is good, but you really really should test the
> application(s) against a test 8.1 installation before you go live ...
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
We plan on testing.  I'm asking if there is anything that "everyone
knows" will break that we might as well fix before testing.

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