Re: migration of 7.4 to 8.1

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Craig Ringer wrote:

sathiya psql wrote:
This might be a silly question, but ... why 8.1 ?

If you're doing a major upgrade, why not go straight to 8.3? It's been
out long enough that there aren't any obvious nasty bugs, and there have
been a fair few fixes and improvements since prior versions.

Because am using Debian ETCH stable... i need to continue using this... In
Debian ETCH stable 8.1 is only there....

I use Etch on my servers. The magic of etch-backports from backports.org allows me to use 8.3 without messing with anything else. It works extremely well.

All I had to do to install 8.3 was add the etch-backports line to my /etc/apt/sources.list, run `apt-get update', then run:

apt-get -t etch-backports install postgresql-8.3

... then migrate the data to it and remove the old packages.

See backports.org for a mirror list.

I will be installing my project in other machines where it is having DEBIAN
ETCH STABLE, i dont want to face any problems... so only...

am i right ???

Personally I'd use 8.3 from backports.org, but it's of course up to you.

consider the fact that after 1 year Etch is 2 major releases out of date. by the time the next stable release is made you will be running on ancient versions unless you make use of backports.org (or compile it yourself, which is useually my choice).

David Lang

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