Re: Upgrading from 7.2 to 7.4.1 on Redhat 7 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Scott,

I kept plugging away at it and I now have 7.4.0 installed, and I'm very
happy about it :)

There were a couple of mistakes that I made, one was in not looking at the
order that I was removing the 7.3.3 RPMs.  When I would try to remove the
wrong one, it would tell me that I couldn't remove it because there were
certain files that other RPMs were dependant upon.  Once I removed those
files, and went back to remove the original, it worked.  Once I had 7.3.3
removed, installing 7.4.0 was pretty easy since I realized that the order of
my installation of the different files was important.  Sorry if I cluttered
up the list for the last few days with lots of RPM related problems, but I
finally have the whole system figured out to the point that I can at least
get by.

Thanks for all the help!

Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: scott.marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@ihs.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:55 AM
To: Jeremy Smith
Cc: Lamar Owen; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading from 7.2 to 7.4.1 on Redhat 7


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jeremy Smith wrote:

> Thanks Lamar
>
> I will try that link later, for some reason it's not coming up now.  I
tried
> one of the FTPs off of the postgresql.org site, and the folder for 7.4.1
and
> Redhat 7.3 was empty.
>
> Btw, I have removed my RPM installation of 7.4.0, and my failed attempt at
> installing 7.4.1 and am now left with a working version of 7.3.3.  I am
> almost tempted to just go ahead and use this verion and give up on all the
> installing and uninstalling.  Is there alot I would be missing out on by
not
> having 7.4.1?  I plan on leasing a new server in June that would likely
have
> Red Hat Enterprise on it, and hopefully it would either have an up to date
> version of postgrese, or no version at all for a clean installation.  I
have
> so much work to do on my site that I hate spending valuable time on this..

7.4 is an incremental improvement over 7.3.  If you stick to 7.3, you
should at least seek out the latest 7.3 version in RPM format and do a

rpm -Uvh postgresql-7.3.5.rpm

Well, dangit, I just looked, and it appears the latest 7.3 version
available on the postgresql ftp site(s) is 7.3.4, not 7.3.5.  Anyone have
a link to a 7.3.5 rpm for rh 7.x?

7.4.x has a lot of improvements.  If you deinstall the 7.3, 7.4.x should
install just fine.  but, there's another issue.

If the server you'll be migrating to in July will only have 7.3, it is
MUCH harder to go backwards on data dumps / imports than it is to go
forwards.  I.e. if you develop on 7.4, you may find it a bit difficult
to export import from 7.4 to 7.3 (or not, I haven't tried going from 7.4
to 7.3)  So either make sure your new server can / will have 7.4, or stick
to 7.3.  I'd recommend upgrading to 7.3.4 for now, and when a set of 7.3.5
rpms comes out upgrade to them.  These are "in place" upgrades so you can
do them without a dump / restore problem.