Re: Upgrading side by side in Gentoo

*no more mesages please*

Andrus escribió:
> I have separate production server running
>
> "PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC
> i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0,
> pie-8.7.9)"
>
> and want to upgrade this to something newer.
> I can allow some hours of downtime for upgrade at night.
>
> I have found Gentoo upgrade instructions here
> http://hasno.info/2008/7/31/upgrading-to-postgresql-8-3-on-gentoo
>
> I have no idea how PostgreSql is installed in this server, maybe it is
> compiled from source.
> So I'm afraid that using those instructions may corrupt the server so
> it will no longer come up in morning and I'm not able to fix it due to
> lack of allowed downtime and knowledge.
>
> So I'm planning the following strategy:
>
> 1. Create backup copy in this 8.1.4
> 2. Stop postmaster
> 3. Install latest version of PostgreSql to separate directory
> 4. Restore to it from backup
> 5. If something fails, stop new and re-start old 8.1.4 postmaster.
>
> The difficult point for me is (3).
> How to install latest version in gentoo side-by side so that old
> version is not touched?
> In windows it is easy: I can select other directory from installer.
> How to do same thing in this Gentoo ? I need also adminpack to read
> log files from pgAdmin.
>
> Andrus.
>

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