On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:21 -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: > I'm getting ready to tackle another upgrade: 7.4.6 -> 8.3.3. The > preliminaries (development/testing) look good but I'd like > suggestions/warnings/comments on: > > 1. Removing OIDs on user tables. > > I don't see any dump or restore options to remove OIDs. Am I better off > modifying the dump to alter the "SET default_with_oids = true;" lines or > going through all the user tables in advance and running "ALTER TABLE > ... SET WITHOUT OIDS"? Other options? If the table has oids, pg_dump is going to grab them and restore them as such. If you are assured that you don't need OIDs I would drop the oid columns from the user tables before the upgrade. > > 2. Alter encoding from C to utf8. Very good chance the dump will not load without going through a cleanup with iconv. Joshua D. Drake
