"Chris Hoover" <revoohc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have an ancient database that is running Postgresql 7.2.1 on AIX. Is it > safe to directly upgrade the database to 8.1? If not, what steps do I need > to take? That's a big jump. You'll want to set up a test installation and do some compatibility testing --- it seems quite likely to me that you'll find a few things that need adjustment in your client apps and/or SQL schema. Why are you intending to migrate to 8.1 and not 8.2? > Also, I know there are a ton of fixes/improvements from 7.2, but are there > any major data losing bugs in this version that I can use as added pressure > on management? Egad, man. 7.2 was abandoned years ago because of unfixable bugs... As a first approximation, you could suppose that every major bug we've fixed in 7.3 since 7.3.10 is also in 7.2. And should I point out that several data-loss bugs were fixed post-7.2.1 before we abandoned that branch? If there's any valuable data in that DB, to still be running 7.2.1 is lawsuit-worthy negligence. Trawl the release notes here: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release.html regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
