Whoah, that's news to me.
I used PostgreSQL fairly recently (a year or so ago?) and ended up abandoning it after I was forced to do the export/import dance through a few version upgrades.
When did that requirement go away?
I used PostgreSQL fairly recently (a year or so ago?) and ended up abandoning it after I was forced to do the export/import dance through a few version upgrades.
When did that requirement go away?
This makes me very nervous tho, I've at least two exts (trigrams and gists) maybe they work, maybe not, I just prefer the ease of mind of a old fashioned dump.
It'd be something like nominatim.so, which is external to PGSQL and (AFAIK) has its own format for certain types of data and indexes.
Dump and reload is ok if you have a small database or can afford hours of downtime... if not, use pg_upgrade.
The difference is that you can use logical replication since 10 to prevent downtime during upgrade.
Which if you were using it a year ago could have been done.