BUG #5137: Upgrade policy clarification

On sön, 2009-10-25 at 13:52 +0000, Peter Bengtson wrote:

It would be good if you to the page describing how a db dump is required
only for major verson upgrades, e.g. from 8.3.x to 8.4.x but not from, say,
8.3.7 to 8.3.8, could add a proviso: a DB dump *is* necessary when upgrading
from a server compiled for 32 bits even to the same version compiled for 64
bit architectures.

I recently spent about 12 hours getting my development system in order again
after an upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard, simply because I believed
your upgrade policy page. It would be nice if other people didn't have to go
through that process.

Which page exactly are you talking about?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

On sön, 2009-10-25 at 13:52 +0000, Peter Bengtson wrote:

It would be good if you to the page describing how a db dump is required
only for major verson upgrades, e.g. from 8.3.x to 8.4.x but not from, say,
8.3.7 to 8.3.8, could add a proviso: a DB dump *is* necessary when upgrading
from a server compiled for 32 bits even to the same version compiled for 64
bit architectures.

Which page exactly are you talking about?

My bet on this one: http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning
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