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From Robin Ericsson
Subject Re: PostGreSQL upgrade failed (Debian Packages), need
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Msg-id 1101315854.4220.173.camel@pylver.localhost.nu.
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In response to Re: PostGreSQL upgrade failed (Debian Packages), need advice...  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 08:30 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> >Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Well you can't just "upgrade" 7.2.1 to 7.4.6. You have to dump and
> >>restore.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The Debian package does that automatically.  On some days...
> >
> >
> Really? WOW! I wonder if Gentoo does that. That is pretty
> remarkable.

Gentoo tells you that you need to dump and remove the cluster before it
evens tries to upgrade, atleast did for me when going from 7.3 to 7.4



regards,
    Robin

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