Re: Change in behavior when installing an additional PostgreSQL major version - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-debian

From Christoph Berg
Subject Re: Change in behavior when installing an additional PostgreSQL major version
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Msg-id Z7yOC-qHhrhxjUoA@msg.df7cb.de
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In response to Change in behavior when installing an additional PostgreSQL major version  (Schmid Andreas <Andreas.Schmid@bd.so.ch>)
List pgsql-pkg-debian
Re: Schmid Andreas
> Now, I had to add a separate pg_createcluster command, which basically wasn't a big deal. However, as I had to do
quitesome research to understand why all of a sudden my script didn't work anymore, maybe you can give some background
aboutthe reasons that led to this change?
 

Hi,

the old behavior wasn't practical for the majority of users. To
upgrade, you had to install the new PG package and then run
"pg_dropcluster" as the first command. That was weird and possibly
dangerous.

Christoph



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