Re: Upgrade 7.4 to 8.1 or 8.2?

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrade 7.4 to 8.1 or 8.2?
Date: 2006-10-20 15:20:23
Message-ID: 4538E937.105@cox.net
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On 10/20/06 10:09, John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
> We're looking to upgrade from 7.4 - should we go to 8.1.5 or 8.2?
>
> We have two databases; 7.4.6 and 7.4.11 in a master slave config using
> Slony. Both databases use the C locale with UTF-8 encoding on unix.
>
> We've dumped and loaded the data into an 8.1.4 database and have seen no
> problems with invalid UTF-8 sequences. So we're fairly happy that we can
> upgrade to 8.1.5 pretty easily using Slony.
>
> We're really looking for some extra performance right now.
>
> Are the differences between 8.1.5 and 8.2 significant? Is 8.2 more about
> speed or new features?

8.2 is not released yet. Can you risk your app on beta software?

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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