On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:56, Glen Parker wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 09:56, Schwenker, Stephen wrote: > >> I'm using version 7.4.2 on solaris. > > > > A few points: > > > > 4: Look at migrating to 8.1 or even 8.2 (due out real soon now). There > > have been a lot of advances in pg since 7.4, and the upgrade is pretty > > painless as long as the dump / restore isn't too much of a burden. > > I couldn't agree more. 8.* is light years from where 7.4 was. > Just do it, you'll be very happy you did. I recently tossed 8.1 on my workstation which runs a little reporting application here. I pointed the app from 7.4 to 8.1 and got a visit within about an hour from a user, asking if I'd done anything to my database. Worrying that I'd made some mistake and he was getting an error or something, I asked why he'd asked, and his comment was that it now seemed to be much faster. I then commenced to breath again. 8.1 is awesome. I'll be putting 8.2 on my workstation this week. yee ha!
