Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > On 05/19/2010 05:16 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Andres Freund wrote: > >> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 22:39:32 Bruce Momjian wrote: > >>> There are some limitations when migrating from 8.3 to 8.4, but not when > >>> migrating from 8.3 to 9.0, because we added a feature to 9.0. Can you > >>> give a specific example? > >> Didnt the 'name' alignment change? > > > > Uh, the heading above that item is: > > > > <title>Limitations in migrating <emphasis>from</> PostgreSQL > > 8.3</title> > > > > What is unclear there? It covers going to 8.4 and 9.0. > > well the wording makes it kinda unclear on what happens if you go FROM > 8.4 to 9.0. If there are no known limits we might want to add a small > note saying so. If there are some we might want to restructure the > paragraph a bit...
Sorry for the delay in replying. The section you list is titled: F.31.4. Limitations in migrating from PostgreSQL 8.3 http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgupgrade.html and the first sentence is: pg_upgrade will not work for a migration from 8.3 if a user column I have updated the paragraph to be: Upgrading from PostgreSQL 8.3 has additional restrictions not present when upgrading from later PostgreSQL releases. For example, pg_upgrade will not work for a migration from 8.3 if a user column is defined as: Can you suggest other wording? FYI, the items that affect only 8.3 to 8.4 migrations are no longer in the 9.0 pg_upgrade docs because we don't support 8.4 as a target anymore; specifically: Limitations In Migrating _to_ PostgreSQL 8.4 ---------------------------------------------------------- pg_migrator will not work if a user column is defined as: o a user-defined composite data type o a user-defined array data type o a user-defined enum data type You must drop any such columns and migrate them manually. You can see the full documentation here: http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pg-migrator/pg_migrator/README?rev=1.78&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers