On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 14:00 -0800, DM wrote: > We are planning to upgrade to 9.01 from 8.4/8.3 version. On my > production Server, there isn't much space left to do a pg_upgrade > (Copy), You can use pg_upgrade in link mode -- and AFAIK it uses less extra space as compared to copy mode: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/pgupgrade.html > Can I execute pg_upgrade from new box by pointing to the data > directory and binaries on old box. Alternatively, you can use pg_dump of 9.0 to dump the data, and restore it using psql, since you don't really need pg_upgrade here -- you will be moving to a new hardware anyway. Regards, -- Devrim GÃNDÃZ PostgreSQL DanÄÅmanÄ/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer PostgreSQL RPM Repository: http://yum.pgrpms.org Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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