Offical 6.5 release

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#1Len Morgan
len-morgan@crcom.net

Has any tentative date been set for the 6.5 release? I have just about
convinced my company to replace their current plans to use a HUGE Oracle 8
database on NT with PostgreSQL on Linux. We will need to roll out working
systems in 2 months or so and 6.5 has a lot of features that I would like to
have. I'd rather not roll out 6.4.2 and then have to go to 20 different
sites and upgrade them to 6.5 later unless that upgrade process will be
easier than it has been in the past.

Thanks

Len Morgan

#2Jackson, DeJuan
djackson@cpsgroup.com
In reply to: Len Morgan (#1)
RE: [GENERAL] Offical 6.5 release

6.5 is currently in beta. I'd suggest doing development on 6.4.2 then
upgrade to 6.5 ASAP after it's release. You should have some testing time
between it's release and your rollout date.
Disclaimer: 6.5 could take a full two months to come out of beta. I doubt
that it will.
-DEJ

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-----Original Message-----
Has any tentative date been set for the 6.5 release? I have just about
convinced my company to replace their current plans to use a HUGE Oracle 8
database on NT with PostgreSQL on Linux. We will need to roll out working
systems in 2 months or so and 6.5 has a lot of features that I would like
to
have. I'd rather not roll out 6.4.2 and then have to go to 20 different
sites and upgrade them to 6.5 later unless that upgrade process will be
easier than it has been in the past.

Thanks

Len Morgan

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Len Morgan (#1)
Re: [GENERAL] Offical 6.5 release

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Has any tentative date been set for the 6.5 release? I have just about
convinced my company to replace their current plans to use a HUGE Oracle 8
database on NT with PostgreSQL on Linux. We will need to roll out working
systems in 2 months or so and 6.5 has a lot of features that I would like to
have. I'd rather not roll out 6.4.2 and then have to go to 20 different
sites and upgrade them to 6.5 later unless that upgrade process will be
easier than it has been in the past.

Though we have not set a date for the 6.5 release, it would be very
unusual for us to be in beta that long. I am confident you can expect
6.5 within two months.

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#4A James Lewis
james@fsck.co.uk
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: [GENERAL] Offical 6.5 release

I really only use postgres to teach myself about SQL and postgres at the
moment, I will be setting up a new server for home use, so I wondered if
it would be practical to set up with 6.5 beta and upgrade when the final
version is released?

Are there likley to be database structure changes before the release...
Also, I have an existing database running 6.4.0, if I upgrade the binaries
to 6.4.2 will this require a dump/reload or will I just have to
stop/upgrade/restart the postmaster?

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

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Has any tentative date been set for the 6.5 release? I have just about
convinced my company to replace their current plans to use a HUGE Oracle 8
database on NT with PostgreSQL on Linux. We will need to roll out working
systems in 2 months or so and 6.5 has a lot of features that I would like to
have. I'd rather not roll out 6.4.2 and then have to go to 20 different
sites and upgrade them to 6.5 later unless that upgrade process will be
easier than it has been in the past.

Though we have not set a date for the 6.5 release, it would be very
unusual for us to be in beta that long. I am confident you can expect
6.5 within two months.

-- 
Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
+  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
+  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026

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