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In response to Re: Redhat 7 and PgSQL  (teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød))
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On 29 Sep 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:

> > But claiming that you can't upgrade is painting over what might rather be
> > a deficiency in the RPM mechanism, ISTM.  Why can't you have a spec file
> > like this:
> >
> > %preupgrade
> > pg_dumpall >somewhere
>
>
> 1) You don't know that postgresql is running. It probably isn't.
> 2) You don't know that you have the diskspace to do that.

These are things that have to be considered regardless of the upgrade
mechanism.

Brett W. McCoy
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