May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
PostgreSQL provides an additional supplied program, called pg_upgrade, which allows you to migrate between major releases, such as from 9.2 to 9.6; or you can upgrade straight to the latest server version. These upgrades are performed in-place, meaning that we upgrade your database without moving to a new system. That does sound good, but pg_upgrade has a few things that you may wish to consider as potential negatives, which are as follows: