Brian Fehrle brianf at consistentstate.com
Wed Nov 9 16:49:08 PST 2011
Hi all, I have a few questions about upgrading to a newer version of slony.

I have a group of systems that are on slony version 1.2.21, and postgres 
8.4. We'd like to upgrade to the latest slony release, 2.1.0.

First question, has slony 2.1.0 shown to be stable and work well for 
everyone? Would it be smarter to go with the latest of 2.0 series before 
jumping on 2.1, or is 2.1 less of a 'major release' type that I may be 
thinking it is?

Also, upgrading from 1.2.21 straight to 2.1, I see via this page 
(http://slony.info/documentation/2.1/slonyupgrade.html) it seems to 
suggest going the path of just dropping every node from the slony 
cluster, installing the new binaries, then setting it up again from 
scratch on the new version. Is this the best / most suggested upgrade 
path, and is upgrading from 1.2 to 2.1 such a major change that it's 
just not recommended to try to migrate an existing cluster? (it's pretty 
much answered in that page, but would like any other opinions from 
anyone who may have upgraded already).


These seem to be more of opinion based questions, what do you all think?

Thanks in advance,
- Brian F


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