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I wonder if this will come with some smaller production plans between dev and Ronin. We're also in the situation of getting enough performance out of the shared db offering and not needing the power of Ronin yet.

Also, I'd hope they will give a few months warning before flipping the switch completely, similar to how the hoptoad/airbrake switch went.

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> Also, I'd hope they will give a few months warning before flipping the switch completely, similar to how the hoptoad/airbrake switch went.

Funny you should say that, as I was involved in the hotpoad/airbrake transition and am now involved in the Heroku postgres one. The transition will be as smooth as we possibly can, no data will be lost, there will be plenty of time to move your data, and easy ways of doing so.

We are really excited about offering a development and free 9.1 postgres service, a huge step forward from the current 8.3 shared database service, and are looking forward to moving people over to the new instances.

We will certainly have a deprecation / transition period between the existing shared db plan and the new development plan that will give users ample opportunity to migrate their data. Safely preserving data is our number one priority, so this will be handled carefully.

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