On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 01:05:12PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 10/11/2012 05:15 AM, Rosser Schwarz wrote: > >In preparation for that effort, I've been asked to avail myself of the > >collective experience and wisdom of the wider community to see if > >anyone has seen anything unexpected, or any kind of misbehavior in > >running 8.3 on RHEL 6.3. > > I've not noticed any reports of issues specific to RHEL 6 on any > version of Pg here, and would be surprised if any issues were to > occur. > > Consider retaining your old server for a little while, running as a > warm standby with log shipping. In the exceedingly unlikely case > that you do run into issues you can fail back to the old server. > > Migrating from 8.3 to 9.1 or 9.2 isn't a big hurdle, since you're > already past the implicit-casts-from-text stuff. About the only > thing really likely to bite you is the bytea_output change to hex, > and that's a trivial postgresql.conf change if you want to preserve > the old behaviour while fixing code. > > I can understand not wanting to undertake it at the same time as a > hardware change, but you should probably schedule it for sooner > rather than later and start testing on the new version once you're > on the updated OS & HW. Also, we expect all users to perform all minor upgrades. All fixes are not listed in the release notes, and we don't expect anyone to re-test after a minor upgrade, considering the criteria we use in adding anything to a minor release; see this: http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
