Re: upgrade postgres 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: upgrade postgres 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6
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Msg-id AANLkTinoCqysYRVXctcmXApmW5_I0lwtfrSv8fMC5iuI@mail.gmail.com
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In response to upgrade postgres 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6  (Silvio Brandani <silvio.brandani@tech.sdb.it>)
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2010/7/13 Silvio Brandani <silvio.brandani@tech.sdb.it>:
> We need to upgrade the postgres running on our production system under Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1  from version 8.1.21 to version
> 8.3.6.
>
> we could have a stop/maintenance window of 3/4 our the sum of size of
> databases is around  1G .
> Which is the best practice to execute such upgrade with possible rollback
> operation to gain in 3/4 hour this job ??
> Any suggestion higly appreciated

We use slony to upgrade in place.  total downtime is measured in
seconds, minutes at the most.

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