Re: Postgres Security Patches Question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Postgres Security Patches Question
Date
Msg-id 20190424151718.GA6771@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to RE: Postgres Security Patches Question  ("Patil, Prashant" <Prashant.Patil@crowncastle.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 2019-Apr-24, Patil, Prashant wrote:

> Thanks Tom. So since security patches is not release separately, they
> are part of minor releases. Is this correct statement?

It is correct.

> If they are part minor releases, we need to download source code for
> that release and perform upgrade and while performing upgrade, we can
> point install directories to our custom data/config directories RIGHT?

The install directories don't have to care where your data/config
directories and files are.  Only your start scripts have to.  You can
just stop the database, install the new binaries on top of the previous
ones, start the database.

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