Hi River
Am 30.09.2010 09:22, schrieb River Tarnell:
However, it might make sense to upgrade to a more recent version at the same time; either 8.4 or 9.0. This will require a dump and reload of all databases, so it will take a while to complete. As far as I know, there should be no (or very few) changes required to tools using the database.
There are known performance issues with the diff update process on 8.4 [1]. There has been some talk [2] about 9.0 but no real experience with it.
I don't have a strong opinion either way, although I think it makes sense to upgrade regularly rather than stay on the same version forever. Before I make a decision, it would be nice to know what people actually using the database think.
I'd like to give 9.0 a try but we'd need a way run it in parallel to 8.3 (maybe on another server) to do some benchmarking between them before we make a decision for the one or the other.
Peter
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openstreetmap.org/msg11474.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openstreetmap.org/msg12707.html