Dan Shea <dan.shea@xxxxxxxx> writes: > You make it sound so easy. Our database size is at 308 GB. Well, if you can't update major versions that's understandable; that's why we're still maintaining the old branches. But there is no excuse for not running a reasonably recent sub-release within your branch. Read the release notes, and consider what you will say if one of the several data-loss-causing bugs that were fixed long ago eats your DB: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release.html regards, tom lane