If I have never used pg_upgrade, so I believe I do not need to do anything, correct?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:28 PM > To: pgsql-admin; Benjamin Krajmalnik > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading from 9.0.3 to latest > > "Benjamin Krajmalnik" <k...@servoyant.com> wrote: > > > I will be taking down all of our infrastructure to update firmware > > on the controllers due to a bug affecting BBU (wonderful J ). > > > > I was thinking of taking the opportunity and upgrading pg from > > 9.0.3 (amd64 on Freebsd 8.1) to the latest version 9.0.6. > > That sounds like a good idea. > > > In the release notes for 9.0.6, it mentions: > > > > fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view (Tom > > Lane) > > > > Is the dropping and recreation of this mandatory, > > If you don't do it, I don't think you're any worse off than you were > while at version 9.0.3; you will just not have fixed the view. > > > can it be done at any time while the server is already being > > pounded with data? > > I would tend to do it as part of the upgrade process. I don't think > it take very long to run. If you do it while queries are running, > you will get errors if any of them reference the information_schema > schema, they will get runtime errors on missing objects. > > Probably more important is to make sure that you have considered > this issue, and taken action if necessary: > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix > > -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin