Attempting to resend. My first attempt was rejected with this explanation: Your message to the pgsql-performance list has been denied for the following reason(s): A message was previous posted with this Message-ID Duplicate Message-ID - <481AFC7B.EE98.0025.0@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (Fri May 2 13:36:52 2008) Duplicate Partial Message Checksum (Fri May 2 13:36:52 2008) >>> "Gauri Kanekar" wrote: > Can anyone who have started using 8.3.1 list out the pros and cons. There are bugs in the 8.3.1 release which bit us when we started using it; however, these are fixed in the 8.3 stable branch of cvs. We are running successfully with that. These fixes will be in 8.3.2 when it is released. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-04/msg00168.php It's generally a good idea to test with a new release before putting it into production, especially a major release. Since you asked on the performance list -- we have found performance to be significantly better under 8.3 than earlier releases. Also, the data takes less space on the disk, and checkpoint disk activity spikes are reduced in 8.3. -Kevin
