Re: Upgrade in same major version - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Upgrade in same major version
Date
Msg-id 20081014172420.GB3905@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Upgrade in same major version  (Evan Rempel <erempel@uvic.ca>)
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Evan Rempel wrote:
> What this means is that you do not have to "update" the data repository (wherever your
> postgresql database is stored). All that needs to be done is to uninstall the old version,
> and install the new version. Start the new version and use the data where it sits.

Actually you don't need to uninstall the old version or delete the
files; a simple "make install" will overwrite them with the new copies,
if you install from source.  If you install from RPM or other package
methods, the "upgrade" operation should overwrite the files.

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