er 1.1 series I meant :)
On 02/03/07, Matt Gibson <..hidden..> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What about upgrades from 1.0 series to 1.2? Are they supported and
> working? I just upgraded from sql-ledger to ledger-smb, but used the
> 1.0 series to do the upgrade. I'd like to jump into the newest series
> if possible :)
>
> Thanks,
> MG
>
>
> On 02/03/07, Chris Travers <..hidden..> wrote:
> > The upgrade to 1.2 will not be as smooth as past updates becuase we
> > have opted to make a number of fixes that break the automatic update
> > system. The main ones are a change to the defaults table structure
> > and a deep change in how user info is stored.
> >
> > Yes, there is an upgrade path, but it is not as simple as it has been
> > with past versions because we decided that some problems needed to be
> > truly fixed.
> >
> > Best WIshes,
> > Chris Travers
> >
> > On 3/2/07, Doug Poland <..hidden..> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:37:43AM -0800, Chris Travers wrote:
> > > > Doug Poland said:
> > > >>
> > > >> I've been using SQL-Ledger for about a year and am currently
> > > >> running 2.6.16 on PostgreSQL 8.1.4 to manage my small IT consulting
> > > >> biz. As I've fallen several rev's behind SL, I'm considering
> > > >> making the leap to LedgerSMB instead of the latest SL.
> > > >>
> > > >> My question is, how far can I "fall behind" LSMB before a migration
> > > >> from SL 2.6.16 to LSBM is impossible or very *painful*?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > The migration to 1.1.8 is designed to be no more painless than an
> > > > upgrade of SQL-Ledger. 1.2 will be harder and we are working on
> > > > migration issues at the moment.
> > > >
> > > Since I'm not in a big hurry to upgrade, would you say that I'll have
> > > and upgrade path after 1.2 is released? As I am an Open Source
> > > programmer/network admin, I'm capable and not afraid of rolling up my
> > > sleeves. That said, this is one app I don't get paid to drive and
> > > like it when it *just works*.
> > >
> > > > There are two corner cases where you can run into problems, however:
> > > >
> > > > 1) If you have custom views, the change from DOUBLE to NUMERIC may
> > > > cause the upgrade to fail. You will probably want to drop the views
> > > > first, then recreate them later. pg_dump can be used to dump view
> > > > definitions.
> > > >
> > > I didn't do any customizing
> > >
> > > > 2) We are a lot more strict regarding data integrity than
> > > > SQL-Ledger. There are a number of situations where data corruption in
> > > > SQL-Ledger is allowed to slide and in these cases, the upgrade will
> > > > fail. We can help you resolve these issues, however.
> > > >
> > > Thats hard for me to know and will cross that bridge if necessary :(
> > >
> > > > My recommendation is to create a copy of your database and use that
> > > > for the upgrade. Something like createdb -T sql-ledger ledger-smb
> > > > will create a new database named ledger-smb as a copy of sql-ledger.
> > > > Of course having other backups is a good idea for reasons other than
> > > > the upgrade.
> > > >
> > > I don't do *anything* in SL without backups :) Thanks for your advice!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Doug
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Doug
> > >
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