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[Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas <vince@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/04/2019 08:54, mj wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/28/19 11:59 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> our production datadirs date back to 2002, originally on windows then
>> moved to MacOS and in 2008 to Fedora and i did not dump/restore a single
>> time in my whole life, this is not postgresql
> 
> Just curiosity: does the above statement mean that you consider
> postgresql less stable than mariadb/mysql? And why..?

PostgreSQL until relatively recently (8.something) required you to dump
and restore all your data for a major version upgrade. For some people
this was an argument against using PostgreSQL.

Vince


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> MJ
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