Hello!
I hope that the upgrade went smoothly for everyone here. Now that
we're past the Release Groups release, I would like to make everyone
aware of the fact that MusicBrainz needs to move to Postgres version
8.3 for the NGS release. Given that the NGS release itself will be
quite complicated enough we do not want to further complicate things
by switching databases at the same time. This means that sometime in
late June/early July we will upgrade the main MusicBrainz server to
Postgres 8.3. At the time of this upgrade we will _not_ be releasing
any new features. We're only upgrading the database and nothing else.
What does this mean for you?
It means that as soon as NGS comes about you are required to run
Postgres 8.3 in order to keep up to date with MusicBrainz. You'll have
to choose one of these courses of action:
1. Do nothing until the NGS release. Right after the NGS release,
install postgres 8.3 and re-import the first post-NGS data dump into
8.3.
2. Upgrade to Postgres 8.3 sometime *before* the NGS release, and then
use our provided migration scripts to move the data to NGS.
I suspect that option #1 will take less time overall, but its entirely
up to you on how to proceed. However, I suspect that existing mirrors
running 8.1/8.2 will continue to function until NGS comes out.
Once we nail down a firm date for this upgrade, I will post that info
here and on the blog.
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