Re: pg_upgrade on windows vs. linux

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 07:31:52PM -0800, Brian Ghidinelli wrote:
>
> On 1/7/2014 7:24 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> >Windows and Linux are different enough from a PostgreSQL perspective
> >that you should not. Are you really, really short on space?
>
> Thanks. And no - but short on non-production machines with which to
> test. Production is RHEL managed with yum so I'm not sure how to
> install 9.3 alongside 9.0 without screwing up dependencies/etc?

Can you get a spare machine to do the dumping/reloading on? If you
have uptime requirements, you could use logical (slony or skytools,
e.g.) replication to do the upgrade, round-robin.

Cheers,
David.
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