Re: Upgrading Database: need to dump and restore?

From: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>
To: "Carlos Oliva" <carlos(at)pbsinet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading Database: need to dump and restore?
Date: 2009-06-03 15:45:44
Message-ID: 20090603114544.434edcce.wmoran@potentialtech.com
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In response to "Carlos Oliva" <carlos(at)pbsinet(dot)com>:

> If I were to upgrade the database version, would I need to dump and restore
> all the data?

If you upgrade patch releases (i.e. from 8.3.4 -> 8.3.5) then usually no,
but see the release notes for the versions you're upgrading, because there
are occasionally exceptions.

If you're updating to a major release (8.2.x -> 8.3.x), then yes.

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Bill Moran
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