On 9 Nov 2009, at 10:25, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
...
usually upgrade within a minor version of postgres do not need a
pg_dump_all/
and reimport. But the upgrade from 8.3.7 to 8.3.8 does as the
configure option
for integer-timestamps changed and thus the newly compiled server
can not read
the existing database files.
Thanks, dude!
This is very useful to know about.
I assume this is an upstream decision, and may be expected to apply to
8.3.9, 8.3.10, ... also? I have no reason to "wait and see if this is
resolved", I should be careful to do a dump and restore next time I
upgrade?
Cheers,
Stroller.
