Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0922E0318 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:33:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 64515-04 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:32:56 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from www.postnewspapers.com.au (www.postnewspapers.com.au [202.61.230.242]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A1EE2E02F6 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:32:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postnewspapers.com.au (202-89-185-120.static.dsl.amnet.net.au [202.89.185.120]) by www.postnewspapers.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9930ED5375; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:32:51 +0900 (WST) Received: from localhost (access [127.0.0.1]) by mail.postnewspapers.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A6D1E0437; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:32:51 +0900 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at postnewspapers.com.au Received: from mail.postnewspapers.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (access.postnewspapers.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id sW-8VXhco059; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:32:50 +0900 (WST) Received: from [10.0.0.125] (dhcp-125.localnet [10.0.0.125]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Craig Ringer", Issuer "POST Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by mail.postnewspapers.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10991E0435; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:32:50 +0900 (WST) Message-ID: <47D76AFA.7020100@postnewspapers.com.au> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:32:42 +0900 From: Craig Ringer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sathiya psql Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: migration of 7.4 to 8.1 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/240 X-Sequence-Number: 29194 sathiya psql wrote: > Is there any article describing the migration database from postgresql 7.4to > 8.1 This might be a silly question, but ... why 8.1 ? If you're doing a major upgrade, why not go straight to 8.3? It's been out long enough that there aren't any obvious nasty bugs, and there have been a fair few fixes and improvements since prior versions. -- Craig Ringer