On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:
> Is pg_upgrade supposed to work even across multiple major releases? (I
> know
> that the README.rpm-dist is mentioning just one major release step, but it
> could be bound just to actual pg_upgrade which is packaged..)
>
Yes you should be able to do a one-step upgrade as long as you update from
at least a 8.3 server. There are some restrictions depending on the server
version that is going to be upgraded though, you can have a look at the
documentation for more details here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgupgrade.html
Thanks,
--
Michael