From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Organization: Dynacom Tankers Mgmt
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Major upgrade advice
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:00:29 +0300
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Cc: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
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=CE=A3=CF=84=CE=B9=CF=82 Wednesday 18 June 2008 20:21:45 =CE=BF/=CE=B7 Stev=
e Crawford =CE=AD=CE=B3=CF=81=CE=B1=CF=88=CE=B5:
> I'm getting ready to tackle another upgrade: 7.4.6 -> 8.3.3. The=20
> preliminaries (development/testing) look good but I'd like=20
> suggestions/warnings/comments on:
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> 1. Removing OIDs on user tables.
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> I don't see any dump or restore options to remove OIDs. Am I better off=20
> modifying the dump to alter the "SET default_with_oids =3D true;" lines o=
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> going through all the user tables in advance and running "ALTER TABLE=20
> ... SET WITHOUT OIDS"? Other options?

pg_dump by default ommits OIDs.
However why do you want to completely remove OID functionality?
space usage?

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> 2. Alter encoding from C to utf8.

there is a script hanging around to do just that.
(i miss it at the moment)

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> Cheers,
> Steve
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Achilleas Mantzios