Re: Is it advisable to pg_upgrade directly from 9.0 to 9.3?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Greg Burek <gb(at)heroku(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is it advisable to pg_upgrade directly from 9.0 to 9.3?
Date: 2013-11-06 16:10:44
Message-ID: 527A6A04.3040008@commandprompt.com
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On 11/06/2013 01:06 AM, Greg Burek wrote:
> Hello,
> How advisable or well known is it to take a 9.0 era db directly to 9.3
> using the latest pg_upgrade binary?

Sure. I have done it all the way back to 8.3 (with 9.2). You should of
course test as pg_upgrade is a tool not a perfect solution.

IMO, I would upgrade to 9.2 precisely because it is battle tests, 9.3
isn't but it depends on your particular needs. 9.3 has a lot of cool
stuff in it.

Joshua D. Drake

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