From: Lewis Kapell <lkapell@setonhome.org>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Migrating from 8.3 to 8.4 on the same server
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:37:02 -0400
Message-ID: <4BC7167E.2080504@setonhome.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e01e0bb79419eabaee763bd13ed1590@biglumber.com>
References: <4e01e0bb79419eabaee763bd13ed1590@biglumber.com>
On 4/14/2010 5:11 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> If it wouldn't kill you, I'd suck up the time. All other solutions
> are going to take additional expertise, prep, and testing.
>
> Keep in mind that if you have tables and/or databases that don't
> change frequently, you can dump those beforehand to minimize
> the final downtime.
That's true, I had thought about that also. I guess I would save the
contents of the biggest tables to flat files using the COPY command,
then delete the copied rows, before doing the dump. Is what what you
had in mind?
Lewis
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