Upgrade time

Well it's upgrade time. Time to upgrade to Fedora Core 6 and PostgreSQL 8.1.6 . Currently everything is on Core 4 and 7.4 . It’s been running great for 2 years.

What does this mean? Forums on the site will be down for period of time. I’m still working on the database data migration. The forum data is small and should take up much time. Hopefully, the forum data will take less than an hour. The other data looks like an 8 hour plus migration. I haven’t taken record counts on all of the tables. Luckily when I started all of this kept the databases separate. It will translate into posting slowness while the import id going on.

All other web site activity should remain normal.

On the plus side, I’ll actually have documented all of the necessary steps of recreating the servers.

Another note: Why not 8.2 for postgreSQL? Apparently the perl DBD::PG is not compatible for 8.2 and that is a must for my perl scripts.