April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
15h 22m
English
A dump/reload, or the use of tools such as pg_upgrade, is not needed for minor version updates, for example, going from 8.4.1 to 8.4.2. These simply require stopping the server, installing the new version, and then running the newer database binary against the existing server data files. Some people avoid ever doing such upgrades once their application is running for fear that a change in the database will cause a problem. This should never be the case for PostgreSQL.
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