X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A67B52931 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:42:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67499-04 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:42:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2819152949 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:42:19 -0300 (ADT) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [63.195.55.98] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO spooky) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 7496929; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:44:26 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Todd Landfried Subject: Re: Needed: Simplified guide to optimal memory Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:42:37 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <1118941260.698.5.camel@archimedes.mirlogic.com> <97CA7057-5DEE-4AA5-A4F3-8DEC1CAE720F@viatornetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <97CA7057-5DEE-4AA5-A4F3-8DEC1CAE720F@viatornetworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506170942.37789.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.012 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200506/350 X-Sequence-Number: 12987 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