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From: Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>
To: Kranti K K Parisa? <kranti.parisa@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.1 to 8.3
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:08:50 -0400
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:17:45AM +0530, Kranti K K Parisa? wrote:
> Will look into that.

There were some list rumblings when 8.3 was released about this
feature:

Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT (Peter, Tom)

so, apps will need to be checked for this use.

Upgrade is a straight forwared process, but does require dump/restore/downtime:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/install-upgrading.html
seemless in my experience.

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