Re: Finally upgrading to 9.6!

On 18/10/2017 17:34, Igal @ Lucee.org wrote:
> On 10/18/2017 6:24 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/17/2017 11:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
>>>> Where can I look to see (roughly) how much more RAM/CPU/disk needed when
>>>> moving from 8.4 and 9.2?
>>> It's entirely possible you'll need *less*, as you'll be absorbing the
>>> benefit of several years' worth of performance improvements. But this
>>> is such a workload-dependent thing that there's no general answer.
>>
>> XML stored in blobs (not sure whether text or bytea) and b-tree indexes.
>>
>
> A bit off-topic here, but why upgrade to 9.6 when you can upgrade to 10.0?

Had the same question, we are moving from 9.3 -> 10.0 near the start of summer (I hope).
10.0's pg_upgrade supports 8.4 . One reason to upgrade in smaller steps is maybe to grasp the new changes / features better?

>
> Obviously you're not one to upgrade often so shouldn't you take advantage of all of the new features and improvements when "finally" (to use your own word) upgrading?
>
> Igal Sapir
> Lucee Core Developer
> Lucee.org <http://lucee.org/>
>

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