Re: Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Atul Goel <Atul(dot)Goel(at)iggroup(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0
Date: 2011-08-02 01:43:55
Message-ID: CAOR=d=35=zgFvhzXQjXC0-7b3QmitiQZXptZUWmz-=0ZU22wLA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Atul Goel <Atul(dot)Goel(at)iggroup(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi Forum,
>
> We are planning to upgrade a postgres 8.0 database to postgres 9.0 (Actually
> already done in Dev). The application is J2EE application with Hibernate. My
> question are
>
> 1)      Is there a list of things that needs to be taken care while
> upgrading(known issues).

The single greatest issue is that implicit casts have been removed.
This means you can't do things like use substring on a date type etc
directly or match an int to a varchar in a join without an explicit
cast of one to the other.

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