From: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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To: | Carol Walter <walterc(at)indiana(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: After upgrade cleanup |
Date: | 2008-06-20 21:19:31 |
Message-ID: | E199F56A-1571-4A52-88C0-568C519D87BE@decibel.org |
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On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Carol Walter wrote:
> I just did an upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2.3. We'll go up to 8.3.3 very
> soon, but for reasons I won't go into, this intermediate step was
> necessary. My problem is, now that the upgrade is done, how can I
> clean up the database from the old version. I leave the original
> database up as long as I can when I do an upgrade just in case I
> need to revert to it. Now I have the databases from two versions
> on my server and I need to get rid of the old one. Can I just
> remove the old files from the data directories? With other
> systems, I've had trouble removing database files because upgrades
> use certain files from old versions. I don't want to break my new
> database. I'm on Solaris 10.
Not only does the new version not use files from the old, it doesn't
even know it exists. You can just nuke all the 8.1 stuff.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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