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PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook
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PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

by Dinesh Kumar, Chitij Chauhan
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 10. Data Migration from Other Databases to PostgreSQL and Upgrading the PostgreSQL Cluster

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using the pg_dump to upgrade data
  • Using the pg_upgrade utility for version upgrade
  • Replicating data from other databases to PostgreSQL using Goldengate

Introduction

During the career of a database administrator, he/she will often be required to do major version upgrades of the PostgreSQL server. Over a period of time, new terminologies and features get added to PostgreSQL, and this results in a major version release. To implement the new features of the new version, the existing PostgreSQL setup needs to be upgraded to the new version. Database upgrades require proper planning, careful execution, and ...

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