Re: FYI: 8.0beta2 on Monday

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: miker(at)purplefrog(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FYI: 8.0beta2 on Monday
Date: 2004-08-29 23:34:29
Message-ID: 17473.1093822469@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mike Rylander <miker(at)purplefrog(dot)com> writes:
> Will we be looking at a re-initdb with beta2?

At this point, no initdb, but you will need to be prepared to reset the
xlog if you don't want to initdb. In short:

1. clean shutdown of old postmaster.
2. install new executables.
3. pg_resetxlog $PGDATA
4. start postmaster.

If you try to skip step 3 you will get some truly frightening complaints
about "unable to locate a valid checkpoint", but as long as you didn't
skip step 1 you haven't lost any data.

regards, tom lane

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