[CentOS-devel] Upgrading postgresql (Re: CentOS/RHEL 5.3)

Thu Jan 22 18:19:43 UTC 2009
Charlie Brady <charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au>

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Joshua Kramer wrote:

> 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?

No, but I wouldn't choose to use those.

> 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.

I know all that.

Thanks.