"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 10/25/07, Peter Childs <peterachilds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I was wondering why my PITR base back up was taking 2 hours on my 8.3 test >> database where as it takes 50 minutes on 8.1 and the database files are >> meant to be smaller on a freshly installed 8.3 server rather than a 8.1.1 >> server that aint been rebuilt since 8.1.1 was newly out. >> I was planning to upgrade to 8.3 once its out... >> >> Down time for upgrades is somwhat lacking in a 24x7 business. >> >> Oh my 8.1 server has been up for well over a year with out being down at >> all. the database for longer which really show how good postgres really is >> 377 days uptime on computer and I think that was to move a plug. > > You should really look at scheduling the 5 minute window up update > your 8.1 install. 8.1.1 is quite old and has a few known data eating > bugs, if I remember correctly. Updating to 8.1.10 should only take > literally about 1 or 2 minutes. Actually 8.1.2 fixed two locale problems which could require reindexing. If you're using plperl functions which play with the locale or a locale like hungarian which compares some different strings as equal then you might have to reindex. Otherwise it's just a Postgres server restart's worth of downtime. There are both data eating bug fixes and security fixes in 8.1.10 for you. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
