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Re: Upgrading Database: need to dump and restore?

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In response to "Carlos Oliva" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> If I were to upgrade the database version, would I need to dump and restore 
> all the data? 

If you upgrade patch releases (i.e. from 8.3.4 -> 8.3.5) then usually no,
but see the release notes for the versions you're upgrading, because there
are occasionally exceptions.

If you're updating to a major release (8.2.x -> 8.3.x), then yes.

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