| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chris Travers <chris(at)metatrontech(dot)com> |
| Cc: | sh test <shmailtest(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 7.4 --> 8.0/8.1 upgrade |
| Date: | 2006-03-29 15:31:15 |
| Message-ID: | 1143646274.3625.130.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:00, Chris Travers wrote:
> When I upgraded from 7.4.2 to 8.1.3, I lost the oid fields in some
> tables which caused some issues with one application.
>
> I suspect that the better path is to upgrade (without dump/reload) to
> the most recent 7.4 release and then dump/reload when upgrading to 8.1.x
> but I am not 100% sure.
>
> If you don't WANT OID's in your table (they were dropped for a reason,
> you know), then this is not a concern.
The only problems I've run into have been character set encoding issues,
which were fixed by iconv rather easily.
Since I set up the databases we used, and didn't inherit them, we don't
have any craziness like OIDs used as keys and such. yeah!
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