From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>, Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)hk>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Major upgrade of PostgreSQL and MySQL |
Date: | 2013-09-12 16:47:39 |
Message-ID: | 5231F02B.1090409@commandprompt.com |
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On 09/12/2013 09:37 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
>> On 12/09/2013 17:11, Patrick Dung wrote:
>>> By the way, for in-place major version upgrade (not dumping DB and
>>> import again), MySQL is doing a better job in here.
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgupgrade.html
>
> pgupgrade has nothing to do with this: that's just a tool that does in
> place binary upgrades of the database (basically optimizing the
> dump/reload process). The mysql team OTOH maintains a comprehensive
> list (albeit somewhat disorganized) of things that need to be
> considered by developers and administrators before upgrading.
> Postgres has no such list and yes, kudos to the mysql team for doing
> so.
To be fair, our list would be much smaller and that is likely why not a
lot of effort has been put into it.
>
> merlin
>
>
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