[Pkg-postgresql-public] Default PostgreSQL in Etch

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Freitag, 9. Februar 2007 16:20 schrieb Michelle Konzack:
> For 11 days I have upgraded my dedicated PostgreSQL server to Etch and
> was realy surprised that 7.4 is there and nothing has realy changed.

The postgresql package is transitional and you should now pick the version you 
want explicitly.

> I have a PostgreSQL Database of nearly 560 GByte and it is not realy
> easy to pg_dump_all this pig and push it back into the 8.1 since the
> pg_dump_all run OVER 30 hours and for this I need to increase the
> UPS-Backup power for at least 3 days in case of performance problems.

That comes out to about 5 MB/s, which seems mighty slow.  You should probably 
look into optimizing your configuration.