On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:47, sh test wrote:
> Hello admins!
>
> i need to collect as much information
>
> pro/cons on a possible upgrade from
>
> 7.4 ---> 8.0/8.1 version
>
> Aside from getting our users vote on this, I wanted to ask you first
> in order to collect any possible issues one might run into from
> upgrading to such
> versions.
Downside: You gotta dump and reload, or use slony to minimize the
downtime, but you need a spare machine to do that.
Upside: Everything else. PostgreSQL 8.x series has a lot of
performance improvements.