Re: Upgrade from 9.5.4 to 9.6.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 11/15/2016 05:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>> Rich is using Slackware and I am pretty sure it marches to a different
>> drummer.
>
> Adrian,
>
>   And a different band. Pat likes MariaDB which replaced MySQL so
> PostgreSQL
> is not part of the base distribution. But, SlackBuilds.org provides a build
> script that's worked for me since some early version 7 of postgres.

To add to my previous post. If you do decide to follow the pg_upgrade
procedure in the README do a pg_dump of the 9.5 data just before you do
pg_ugrade and store it away in a safe place. The first time through a
new process does not always end well:)

>
> Regards,
>
> Rich
>
>


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