[CentOS-devel] Upgrading postgresql (Re: CentOS/RHEL 5.3)
Joshua Kramer
josh at globalherald.net
Thu Jan 22 17:09:08 UTC 2009
> I consider that a major upstream bug.
> Better would be for postgresql to ship a standalone SQL dumper, which can
> read old file formats.
Charlie,
Would you expect a "simple" upgrade of Oracle 10i to Oracle 11, for your
major enterprise application? Or, MS-SQL 2005 to MS-SQL 2008?
Any major database version upgrade requires the attention of a qualified
DBA who knows how to test data and applications against the new DB
version, and then dump/upgrade/restore.
For example, PostgreSQL introduced some minor syntactical differences with
8.3. If your application uses the features affected by these changes, it
would be impossible to simply 'dump/restore' without some massaging of the
data and the application.
PostgreSQL does ship with a dumper, pg_dump. If you have the current
version of postmaster, then you use pg_dump to connect to that and dump
your data in a version-agnostic format. IMHO, the effort of writing a
standalone dumper that can recognize all the old file formats is not worth
it, because it is a mistake to delete the old version of postmaster off
your system before you've done a dump of the database.
Cheers,
-Josh
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