Re: 8.3.3 stability ?

Great News. I just requested IS to get the 8.3.3 version.
One more question... Is there some sort of migration that I have to
do for existing DB's? Is it as drastic as a DB unload/load? Or
something simpler?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:39 PM
To: Gauthier, Dave
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.3.3 stability ?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Gauthier, Dave
<dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> wrote:
> Time for an upgrade. How stable is 8.3.3 ?
>
> In a nutshell, what does it buy me over 8.2?

8.3.3 is as stable as 8.2 in my opinion (been running it in production
for a couple months now and there has been no issues with stability
whatsoever).

8.3 has much better performance for certain types of workloads,
especially with HOT updates, and the more efficient bg writer and
vacuuming seems many times faster than it was before.

If I was deploying to production today, I'd use 8.3.3 no questions.