| From: | bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net |
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| To: | Efrain Caro <betsemes(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, Jeff Hoffmann <jeff(at)propertykey(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7 and PgSQL |
| Date: | 2000-09-29 16:14:53 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10009291209110.18021-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Efrain Caro wrote:
> So we can say that we can upgrade, at least in theory, but that's not the
> official policy?
Well, I don't know about 'policy', but yes, you can upgrade PostgreSQL,
you just need to dump your data first (which you should do anyway to
backup -- never upgrade without backing up first!), install the upgrade by
whatever method, do the initdb, then reload your data. It's a minor PITA,
but it's also safe -- if you are doing a direct upgrade and it crashes or
something else really bad happens, your database could get severely
screwed. And then you're screwed.
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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