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Subject: Re: Migrate postgres to newer hardware
From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1igo?= Martinez Lasala <imartinez@vectorsf.com>
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On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 16:29 +0200, I=C3=B1igo Martinez Lasala wrote:
> Hi Renato.
>=20
> I would follow the ancient method: perform a pg_dump / pg_restore

This is the easiest approach.  The problem is that a lot of people have
contractual SLA's that do not allow them to take their systems down long
enough to do a dump and restore upgrade.

--=20
Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.