Re: Postgres DB Migration from 8.3 to 9.1

From: Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres DB Migration from 8.3 to 9.1
Date: 2012-10-13 23:56:23
Message-ID: k5cv37$rst$2@reversiblemaps.ath.cx
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On 2012-10-12, Vishalakshi Navaneethakrishnan <nvishalakshi(at)sirahu(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi Friends,
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> We have our production environment database server in Postgres 8.3 version.
> we have planned to upgrade to lastest version 9.1. Dump from 8.3 and
> restore in Postgres 9.1 takes more than 5 hours. Any other quick method to
> upgrade from 8.3 to 9.1. We need to reduce our downtime below 1 hour. Any
> Possibilities..?

Using slony1 you can continue to operate the 8.3 until the instant you
want to change over.

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