From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
Cc: | "Carol Walter" <walterc(at)indiana(dot)edu>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: After upgrade cleanup |
Date: | 2008-07-01 19:54:35 |
Message-ID: | dcc563d10807011254r7c515bdao22045ee744eb14aa@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
> 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.
If you're paranoid, then you can also do:
sudo chmod 000 /old/data/dir
and see if anything breaks.
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