Contributed by jason on from the another-day-another-dump dept.
Pierre-Emmanuel André (pea@) recently committed an update to databases/postgresql. This updates the port from PostgreSQL version 8.3.7 to 8.4.0. Administrators are required to perform a dump/restore to migrate to this new release.
More information is available online:
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By Venture37 (venture37) on http://www.geeklan.co.uk
beware, the site is flash based!!!
http://hosting3.epresence.tv/fosslc/1/Page/Published/33.aspx
A guide to PostgreSQL 8.4:
http://hosting3.epresence.tv/fosslc/1/watch/142.aspx
By Dan Colish (dcolish) dan@unencrypted.org on http://www.unencrypted.org
FYI, you don't actually have to do the dump/restore garbage. pg_migrator allows you migrate the data from one database version to the new one in much less time than would be required for a normal dump/restore. Obviously, its only worth using if you have a lot of data. Anyway, its considered fairly stable now, so if you have an opportunity give it a shot.