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From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>
To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez@vectorsf.com>
Cc: Renato Oliveira <renato.oliveira@grant.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Migrate postgres to newer hardware
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:29:57 -0400
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On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 09:58 +0200, Iñigo Martinez Lasala wrote:
> I've never worked with Bucardo and Londiste, so I cannot give you any
> hint about it.
> With slony it's not necessary to restore all database prior staring
> sync process. You only have to restore your schema but not data. Slony
> will keep them synced with source server.
> 
> Anyway, if you plan to migrate to 8.4 there are some issues with
> slony. For 8.3 and higher, you will go with slony 2.X. For 8.2 with
> slony 1.X
> I'm not sure if Slony 1.x is compatible with Postgres >= 8.3, but I'm
> sure slony 2.x is not backwards compatible.

Slony 1.2.17 and higher is compatible with PG 8.4.  I'd go with the
latest stable release though.  

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





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