Re: 7.1 Release Date - Mailing list pgsql-general

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: 7.1 Release Date
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0008291131050.564-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to 7.1 Release Date  (Miguel Omar Carvajal <omar@carvajal.com>)
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On 29 Aug 2000, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsr�d wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Miguel Omar Carvajal wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >    When will Postgresql 7.1 be released?
> >
> > right now, we're looking at October-ish for going beta, so most likely
> > November-ish for a release ...
>
> Will there be a clean upgrade path this time, or
> yet another dump-initdb-restore procedure?

IMHO, upgrading a database server is like upgrading an operating system
... you scheduale downtime, back it all up and upgrade ...

there is the pg_upgrade script that is available, that some ppl have had
varying degrees of success with, but I've personally never used ...



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