From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200901221855.n0MIth208215@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Postgres 8.3.x upgrade
In-Reply-To: <026501c97cc1$f7266230$e5732690$@org>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:55:43 -0500 (EST)
CC: "'Jessica Richard'" <rjessil@yahoo.com>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
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Larry Rosenman wrote:
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jessica Richard
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:51 AM
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] Postgres 8.3.x upgrade
> 

FYI, we should point people here to explain upgrades:

	http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning

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> We are going to upgrade our Postgres servers (most 8.2.9 and some 8.2.4) to
> the 8.3.x version.
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> >From the postgres web site, I can see the 8.3.5 is the latest version.  
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> Question for people who have been on 8.3.5:
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> Is 8.3.5 very safe to use (no major new bugs)? Is it really better than the
> older versions of  the 8.3.X families?
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> Thanks a lot,
> Jessica
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> Yes, we've been using it for a few months, and it's fine.  You *ALWAYS* want
> to be using the latest
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> version within the series.  The PostgreSQL project releases those to fix
> bugs. 
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> Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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