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From Francisco Reyes
Subject Upgrading to 7.2
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Msg-id 20020215121355.N66634-100000@zoraida.natserv.net
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Responses Re: Upgrading to 7.2  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Quick question.
Does initdb deletes the old database?

I will be upgrading shortly to 7.2 and the steps will be:
pg_dumpall from 7.13
install 7.2
initdb
psql to read old data

I am wondering if initdb will delete the old data or if it is safer to
blow away the data from the directories.

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