| From: | Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 7.1 Release Date |
| Date: | 2000-10-16 16:33:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20001016123338.G15903@reptiles.org |
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:18:15PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Let me ask. Could people who need to be up all the time dump their
> > > data, install PostgreSQL on another machine, load that in, then quickly
> > > copy the new version to the live machine and restart. Seems like
> > > downtime would be minimal.
> >
> > sure, i've only got 25+ gig of tables, two of which are 10+ gig each.
> >
> > 8^(
> >
> > it certainly would be nice to have a quicker process than dump/reload.
>
> I see. Hmmm.
oh, forgot to mention that some of my indexes take 2+ hours to rebuild
from scratch.
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