| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade (was: 8.2 features status) |
| Date: | 2006-08-04 18:12:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20060804181216.GI20016@kenobi.snowman.net |
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* Jim C. Nasby (jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:20:48PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > * In-place upgrades (pg_upgrade)
> >
> > BTW, I may get Sun to contribute an engineer for this; will get you posted.
>
> How would such a thing handle changes to page formats?
Couldn't this be done by converting a table/partial-table at a time?
It wouldn't be something which could run while the system is live, but
it'd probably take less time than dump/restore and wouldn't require
double the disk space of the whole database... no?
Thanks,
Stephen
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