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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Todd Landfried <tlandfried@viatornetworks.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Needed: Simplified guide to optimal memory
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:42:37 -0700
Message-ID: <200506170942.37789.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
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Todd,

> I'm going only on what my engineers are telling me, but they say
> upgrading breaks a lot of source code with some SQL commands that are
> a pain to hunt down and kill. Not sure if that's true, but that's
> what I'm told.

Depends on your app, but certainly that can be true.  Oddly, 7.2 -> 8.0 is 
less trouble than 7.2 -> 7.4 because of some type casting issues which were 
resolved.

Mind you, in the past a quick "sed" script has been adequate for me to fix 
compatibility issues.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco



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