Re: upgrade from FC9 / PG8.3 to C7 / PG 9.6 - utf8

On 18/1/19 5:30 μ.μ., Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Friday 18 January 2019 15:18:45 Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>> On 18/1/19 5:08 μ.μ., Gary Stainburn wrote:
>>> If I were to go to 10.x on Centos 7, would I be able to install it
>>> alongside the existing 9.6 to test it? I have noticed with the 9.6
>>> install that it's now using the version number as part of the data path.
>> 9.6 is not page level compatible with e.g. 9.5 whereas 10.6 is with 10.5.
>> So in the versioning scheme PostreSQL community just dropped one dot.
>> Before (<=9*) it was x.y.z with all x.y.* being compatible whereas now
>> (>=10*) it is x.y with all x.* being compatible. By compatible we mean that
>> no pg_dump/restore or pg_upgrade is needed, just recompile and install.
> I have installed 10.6, configured it and imported the data all without issue.
> So far, so good.
>
> I have done the import using the pg_dumpall done on the 8.3 system. From the
> comments earlier, would I be better off doing a pg_dumpall of the 8.3 system
> using the binarys from the 10.6 system?
That should work as well. The other way around is impossible.
>

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Achilleas Mantzios
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