Peter Childs wrote: > Right just installed rc2 to test so that we can use 8.0 once its > out. Loads of nice features, Nice to see them all. Postgres 8.0 seams > faster, but this might be due to the reload. Oh the point in time > recovery feature are there any example scripts to say copy the files to > somewhere then print them onto cd or somthing once created. Oh and is it > possible to examin the point in time logs and see what happerened when, > ie which table got updated to what, very useful when research problems > later.... Probably would require some form of viewer I guess. > > 2 Problems encountered. > > 1. Confirguration file is completly different, so it you have one that > you have configured carfull for 7.4 it will not work at all with 8.0 > many configuration options have changed there names or changed how they > work. I can understand new ones and dropping some of the old ones but > why change it so complely?
I would diff postgresql.conf against the share/postgresql.conf.sample and merge your changes into 8.0. We change it dramatically because we improve functionality and clarity. If we emphasized backward-compatibility it would be very unclear after a while. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
