Mason Hale wrote: > So, I'm fishing to see of there are alternatives to taking our > production database down for 6+ hours do this upgrade. Can slony or > wal files be of help here? Slony can, but WAL files will not work between different versions. > Also -- due to hardware limitations, we need to install 8.2.x on the > same hardware 8.1.5 is currently running on. Can those two versions > exist side-by-side? Sure. Just set a different port and different data directory. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
