On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 21:00, Chris Travers wrote: > When I upgraded from 7.4.2 to 8.1.3, I lost the oid fields in some > tables which caused some issues with one application. > > I suspect that the better path is to upgrade (without dump/reload) to > the most recent 7.4 release and then dump/reload when upgrading to 8.1.x > but I am not 100% sure. > > If you don't WANT OID's in your table (they were dropped for a reason, > you know), then this is not a concern. The only problems I've run into have been character set encoding issues, which were fixed by iconv rather easily. Since I set up the databases we used, and didn't inherit them, we don't have any craziness like OIDs used as keys and such. yeah!
