On 10/20/06, John Sidney-Woollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We're looking to upgrade from 7.4 - should we go to 8.1.5 or 8.2?
We have two databases; 7.4.6 and 7.4.11 in a master slave config using
Slony. Both databases use the C locale with UTF-8 encoding on unix.
We've dumped and loaded the data into an 8.1.4 database and have seen no
problems with invalid UTF-8 sequences. So we're fairly happy that we can
upgrade to 8.1.5 pretty easily using Slony.
We're really looking for some extra performance right now.
Are the differences between 8.1.5 and 8.2 significant? Is 8.2 more about
speed or new features?
I've been developing against 8.2 for months without a single 8.2
specific problem. I run both linux and windows in high load
environments (not so much windows these days tho). I'm going to go
against the grain here and say go for it: yes, it is faster. It's up
to you to determine a test period long enough to build up a trust
level.
possible downsides:
* catalog changes during beta period. (dump/reload to update to 8.2
proper, etc).
* last minute feature change. note recent small change in insert
returning as an example.
* risk of undiscovered bug
ideally, i'd develop/test vs. 8.2 beta, and switch production system
at 8.2 release.
merlin
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