Re: For production: 8.4 or 8.3?

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: For production: 8.4 or 8.3?
Date: 2009-07-28 08:24:47
Message-ID: 1248769487.27116.27.camel@hp-laptop2.gunduz.org
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On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 16:07 +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
>
> Ok this discussion became too complex for me.

:-)

> I am a simple guy with a simple question: will my old data from 8.2.9,
> which does have some date/time indexes, will also work in production
> version of 8.3.7? Correct?

Basically: It will. You will need to dump/restore, that's all. Here is
the relevant part in the docs:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-upgrading.html

However, please note that there are some changes from 8.2 to 8.3 which
*may* break your application. See here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-3.html

Regards,
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