Hi All, 

I am sure this question has been asked before, however, I failed to find any 
related topics in the internet. We have a database about 100GB in size. It was 
started back in 7.x days and has been upgraded along the way to 9.0. Because of 
the historical reason, all timestamps are stored in FloatingPoint. To use pg9, 
we had to compile it with FP support instead of the default Int64. Some recent 
research shows that PG team will eventually dump FP support in favor of int64 
in future, we figured we need to make the move to Int64 before the database 
gets even larger. The challenge we now face is how to "convert" the database 
fast enough, so that required down time is minimized. Searching through the 
internet for 2 days yields little fruit so far... Can someone please provide 
enlighten us? 

Cheers, 



Bo Jin 


Operating/IT Manager 
Troo Corporation [ www.troo.com ] 
43 Auriga Drive, Suite 102, Ottawa, ON K2E 7Y8 
Ph: +1 877.702.8766 x156 
Fax: +1 855.726.8766 

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