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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve Wampler <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres-performance <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Help speeding up delete
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:05:10 +0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

>>That way if someone wanted to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1, they 
>>can just grab the latest dumper from the website, dump their 
>>old database, then upgrade easily.
> 
> But if they're upgrading to 8.1, don't they already have the new
> pg_dump? How else are they going to dump their *new* database?

Erm.  Usually when you install the new package/port for 8.1, you cannot 
have both new and old installed at the same time man.  Remember they 
both store exactly the same binary files in exactly the same place.

>>In my experience not many pgsql admins have test servers or 
>>the skills to build up test machines with the latest pg_dump, 
> 
> I don't, but I still dump with the latest version - works fine both on
> linux and windows for me... 

So you're saying you DO have the skills to do it then...

>>etc.  (Seriously.) In fact, few realise at all that they 
>>should use the 8.1 dumper.
> 
> That most people don't know they should use the new one I understand
> though. But I don't see how this will help against that :-)

It'll make it easy...

Chris

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