| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Michael A(dot) Peters" <mpeters(at)shastaherps(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump, shemas, backup strategy |
| Date: | 2010-07-24 22:12:54 |
| Message-ID: | 5960.1280009574@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> I run CentOS 5.x and I do not like to upgrade vendor supplied packages. My
>> version of pg_dump is from postgresql-8.1.21-1.el5_5.1 - I'm assuming the
>> 8.1.21 is the important part.
> That's a bad policy with PostgreSQL. I guarantee you that the problems
> you will run into because you're on PostgreSQL 8.1 are far worse than
> any you might encounter because you've updated from RedHat's PostgreSQL
> to the RPM packages provided by the PostgreSQL packagers.
Please note also that Red Hat has been shipping PG 8.4 for RHEL5 for
awhile --- it's the postgresql84-* package set. I would hope CentOS
has copied that by now.
regards, tom lane
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