From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Subject: Re: Major upgrade advice
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:00:29 +0300
Message-ID: <200806182100.30833.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48594429.7040001@pinpointresearch.com>
References: <48594429.7040001@pinpointresearch.com>
Στις Wednesday 18 June 2008 20:21:45 ο/η Steve Crawford έγραψε:
> I'm getting ready to tackle another upgrade: 7.4.6 -> 8.3.3. The
> preliminaries (development/testing) look good but I'd like
> suggestions/warnings/comments on:
>
> 1. Removing OIDs on user tables.
>
> I don't see any dump or restore options to remove OIDs. Am I better off
> modifying the dump to alter the "SET default_with_oids = true;" lines or
> going through all the user tables in advance and running "ALTER TABLE
> ... SET WITHOUT OIDS"? Other options?
pg_dump by default ommits OIDs.
However why do you want to completely remove OID functionality?
space usage?
>
> 2. Alter encoding from C to utf8.
there is a script hanging around to do just that.
(i miss it at the moment)
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
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Achilleas Mantzios
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