Re: Upgrade from 7.2 to 7.4

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Chris Gamache <cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrade from 7.2 to 7.4
Date: 2003-11-18 03:46:00
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0311180444490.639-100000@peter.localdomain
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Chris Gamache writes:

> I'm trying to avoid having to install 7.3, dump 7.2 and reload 7.3, then
> install 7.4, dump 7.3 and install to 7.4 ... What's the chances of just using
> the 7.4 pg_dumpall on the 7.2 database and having it work 100% ?

Pretty good. (At least no worse than going via 7.3.) If it does not
work, it's cause for a bug report.

> Also, I recall that when upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3 there was something that had
> to be run to bootstrap the links between sequences and their respective tables
> such that if the table was dropped the sequence would go with it. What is that
> thing called? Is it included in the 7.4 tarball?

Yes, contrib/adddepend.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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