On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:58:21PM -0600, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > I need to migrate a production database from Postgres 9.0 to Postgres > 9.2. > > Running FreeBSD 8.1/amd64, and presently running Postgres 9.0.4. > > Due to the nature of the application, I cannot have any considerable > downtime, so the pg_dump and install new version route is not an option. > > I would like to install PG 9.2 on the same server and use Slony to > replicate the databases, and once everything is up take the 9.0 cluster > down. > > Ideally, I would like to do this from the ports. > > Any suggestions will be deeply appreciated. > Hi Benjamin, Using Slony will definitely work. We have used it many times for this type of upgrade. Since you are on the same box, have you considered using pg_upgrade? Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
