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From Devrim Gündüz
Subject Re: PostGIS packages should not remove older libs
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Msg-id 1411328425.7047.7.camel@asus-laptop-03.gunduz.org
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In response to PostGIS packages should not remove older libs  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: PostGIS packages should not remove older libs  (Jeff Frost <jeff@pgexperts.com>)
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Hi,

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 14:00 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

> The current pgdg RPMs for PostGIS remove the older .so files when you
> upgrade PostGIS.  This is bad policy because it forces the user to
> shut down the database application in order to upgrade PostGIS.  If
> the older libs are left in place, you can do an online upgrade of
> PostGIS without a downtime.
>
> Please change the RPMs so that they do not remove the older .so files
> when you upgrade.

Can you please clarify this for me? Do you mean that we should keep .so
files of 2.1.3 , when someone upgrades to 2.1.4?

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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