On 11-11-09 07:49 PM, Brian Fehrle wrote:
> 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.
> 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).

The *only* option when upgrading from 1.2 to 2.x is to drop slony and 
reinstall + reconfigure it.  If the documentation implies you have some 
other option then we need to make it more clear.

>
>
> These seem to be more of opinion based questions, what do you all think?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> - Brian F
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