>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at  2:57 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Kempter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>    c) setup WAL archiving on the 8.1.4 cluster
> 
>    d) do a full dump of the 8.1.4 cluster and restore it to the new 8.2.4 
> cluster
> 
>    e) stop the 8.2.4 cluster and bring it up in recovery mode, pointing it 
> to 
> the directory where we're archiving the 8.1.4 cluster's WAL segments.

You can't use these techniques for a major version upgrade.
Use pg_dump piped to psql.  That will also eliminate all bloat.
 
-Kevin
 



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