Re: Major upgrade of PostgreSQL and MySQL

Patrick,

* Patrick Dung (patrick_dkt(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)hk) wrote:
> I think the documentation could put a note at the beginning for new users.

Yes, probably true. Feel free to propose specific improvements.

> 2. Also I think the documentation should provide more info for users that use packages.
> Most likely the system would do dependency checking and may refuse two install two versions at the same time.
> So uses need to install the new version in another location.
> More documentation should be provided for this part (e.g for users using Linux rpm/deb or FreeBSD ports).

This should really be up to the packaging systems to handle as it
depends on which OS and which packages you're using..

> 3. But the way, if users is using Windows, is the link option still works?

Don't think so, but not sure. pg_upgrade could be made to work in a
truely "in-place" method if there's demand for it and someone wants to
work on it. It'd clearly be a bit more *dangerous*, of course..

Thanks,

Stephen