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Re: PostgreSQL 8.1 to 8.3



On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:17:45AM +0530, Kranti K K Parisa? wrote:
> Will look into that.

There were some list rumblings when 8.3 was released about this
feature:

Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT (Peter, Tom)

so, apps will need to be checked for this use.

Upgrade is a straight forwared process, but does require dump/restore/downtime:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/install-upgrading.html
seemless in my experience.



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