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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:52:54 +0100
From: Gabriele Bartolini <Gabriele.Bartolini@2ndQuadrant.it>
To: =?UTF-8?Q?Alejandro_Mart=C3=ADnez?= <zen@itram.es>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading cluster with thousands of DBs
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 Hi,

 On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:45:33 +0100, Alejandro Martínez <zen@itram.es> 
 wrote:
> However, our clusters have the particularity that they get to host
> many different *databases*, as in, ~2000 databases per cluster. Most
> of those databases are small (only a table and PostGIS functions), so
> it's more a problem of the number of DBs than the space they use. The
> total size of the cluster is around 60gb.

 If this is your case, I'd suggest an "old-school" approach and migrate 
 one database at a time on a new server with Postgres 9.3.

 Cheers,
 Gabriele
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