Re: Upgrade to Red Hat Linux 9 broke PostgreSQL

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 16:03, Network Administrator wrote:
> Quoting Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>:
> > that matter)) upgrade path -- virtually all other daemons are capable of
> > reading the old configs and data files or there is some form of data
> > migration tool packaged that does not require the old version to use.

> Ahhhh, ok. I see what you're saying. I guess the way I look at that is
> that you have the OS and then you have the stuff that runs on the OS.

PostgreSQL, as packaged i Red Hat Linux (since version 5.0) is considered part
of the OS. For Red Hat. YMMV, YOMV, etc.

> Ok, I what you're saying here. I must have mis-read the original email
> 'cause I thought this a PostgreSQL upgrade not a migration from MySQL

No, I was using the MySQL upgrade process as a contrasting example to the way
we do it. The upgrade in question was PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL of different
major versions.

For a from-source Linux distribution with interesting dependency resolution,
check out Gentoo. You build your entire dist from source.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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