On Monday 01 September 2003 22:08, Vivek Khera wrote:
> I use it in 24/7/365 system which is heavily written to and read
> from. The drawbacks I have are:
Nitpik: that should be 24/7/52, since there aren't 365 weeks in a year.
> 1) upgrade to major versions require dump/restore which is a
> significant amount of downtime for a large DB.
I have harped on this at length. Maybe one day we'll get real upgrading.
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