Re: Upgrading from postgres 8.1 to 8.3

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: S Arvind <arvindwill(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading from postgres 8.1 to 8.3
Date: 2009-05-07 12:15:14
Message-ID: 4A02D0D2.9020506@iol.ie
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On 07/05/2009 11:42, S Arvind wrote:
> Our 600GB data was currently loaded in postgres 8.1 , we want to upgrade
> from postgres 8.1 to 8.3 . Can we able to point the data directly or should
> we have to do any porting work for transfering data from 8.1 to 8.3.

You'll want to test your applications against the new version - one big
gotcha is the removal of certain automatic casts. It's well documented
in the release notes and in various threads on this list.

Ray.

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