Re: PostGreSQL upgrade failed (Debian Packages), need

From: Robin Ericsson <robin(dot)ericsson(at)profecta(dot)se>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Eric D Nielsen <nielsene(at)MIT(dot)EDU>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostGreSQL upgrade failed (Debian Packages), need
Date: 2004-11-24 17:04:14
Message-ID: 1101315854.4220.173.camel@pylver.localhost.nu.
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On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 08:30 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> >Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Well you can't just "upgrade" 7.2.1 to 7.4.6. You have to dump and
> >>restore.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The Debian package does that automatically. On some days...
> >
> >
> Really? WOW! I wonder if Gentoo does that. That is pretty
> remarkable.

Gentoo tells you that you need to dump and remove the cluster before it
evens tries to upgrade, atleast did for me when going from 7.3 to 7.4

regards,
Robin

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