From: Bruce Momjian Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:21:22 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Document that Slony can do upgrades easier _because_ it supports X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_ALPHA4~302 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8cdc238cfa3fda4185fe6a9826dbdf0a107f789;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git Document that Slony can do upgrades easier _because_ it supports replication between different Postgres major versions. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 4f59fd19c2b..226d616a768 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1704,6 +1704,8 @@ pg_dumpall -p 5432 | psql -d postgres -p 5433 It is also possible to use certain replication methods, such as Slony, to create a standby server with the updated version of + PostgreSQL. This is possible because Slony supports + replication between different major versions of PostgreSQL. The standby can be on the same computer or a different computer. Once it has synced up with the master server (running the older version of PostgreSQL), you can