Re: migration of 7.4 to 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Chris
Subject Re: migration of 7.4 to 8.1
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Msg-id 47D7780B.3080001@gmail.com
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In response to Re: migration of 7.4 to 8.1  ("sathiya psql" <sathiya.psql@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: migration of 7.4 to 8.1
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sathiya psql wrote:
>     This might be a silly question, but ... why 8.1 ?
>
>     If you're doing a major upgrade, why not go straight to 8.3? It's been
>     out long enough that there aren't any obvious nasty bugs, and there have
>     been a fair few fixes and improvements since prior versions.
>
> Because am using Debian ETCH stable... i need to continue using this...
> In Debian ETCH stable 8.1 is only there....
>
> I will be installing my project in other machines where it is having
> DEBIAN ETCH STABLE, i dont want to face any problems... so only...

You can get 8.3 from backports: http://www.backports.org/ - it's a
debian project to get more up to date versions for existing stable
releases (they package everything exactly the same way).

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