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Core 5 Upgrade

From
Rick Ellis
Date:
I forgot to dump before I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 (Postgresql
8.0.x to 8.1.x). Is there an easy way to bring up an 8.0.x server
long enough to dump the data?

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Re: Core 5 Upgrade

From
Devrim GUNDUZ
Date:
Hi,

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:46 +0000, Rick Ellis wrote:
> I forgot to dump before I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 (Postgresql
> 8.0.x to 8.1.x). Is there an easy way to bring up an 8.0.x server
> long enough to dump the data?

Do a source 8.0 installation, and start pg_ctl with /var/lib/pgsql/data.
Dump your data, and then stop existing postmaster, and go on with the
upgrade.

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Re: Core 5 Upgrade

From
Rick Ellis
Date:
In article <1143322011.3974.10.camel@evim.gunduz.org>,
Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com> wrote:

>Do a source 8.0 installation, and start pg_ctl with
>/var/lib/pgsql/data. Dump your data, and then stop existing
>postmaster, and go on with the upgrade.

I was afraid you'd say that :) But it worked. Thanks.

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Re: Core 5 Upgrade

From
Amadeus Zilfinski
Date:
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 23:26 +0200, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:46 +0000, Rick Ellis wrote:
> > I forgot to dump before I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 (Postgresql
> > 8.0.x to 8.1.x). Is there an easy way to bring up an 8.0.x server
> > long enough to dump the data?
>
> Do a source 8.0 installation, and start pg_ctl with /var/lib/pgsql/data.
> Dump your data, and then stop existing postmaster, and go on with the
> upgrade.
>
> Regards,

I have a similar problem. Had FC4 and PostgresQL installed. Upgraded to
FC5, and want to use PostgresQL for a bugzilla backend. My problem is
the same as the parent poster, but rather then save my old data I want
to delete it. All of it. How would I go about doing that?

AmadeusZ.-

Re: Core 5 Upgrade

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Amadeus Zilfinski <amadeus0@cox.net> writes:
> I have a similar problem. Had FC4 and PostgresQL installed. Upgraded to
> FC5, and want to use PostgresQL for a bugzilla backend. My problem is
> the same as the parent poster, but rather then save my old data I want
> to delete it. All of it. How would I go about doing that?

Just rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data ... then you can start the new postmaster.

            regards, tom lane

Re: Core 5 Upgrade

From
Amadeus Zilfinski
Date:
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 20:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Amadeus Zilfinski <amadeus0@cox.net> writes:
> > I have a similar problem. Had FC4 and PostgresQL installed. Upgraded to
> > FC5, and want to use PostgresQL for a bugzilla backend. My problem is
> > the same as the parent poster, but rather then save my old data I want
> > to delete it. All of it. How would I go about doing that?
>
> Just rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data ... then you can start the new postmaster.
>
>             regards, tom lane

Thanks. That did it. Now to get the rest of FC5 up and running...


AmadeusZ.-