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Version 8.3

From
Bob Pawley
Date:
I would like to try PostgreSQL 8.3 without uninstalling version 8.1.

Is this possible??

Bob Pawley

Re: Version 8.3

From
Raymond O'Donnell
Date:
On 27/10/2007 22:05, Bob Pawley wrote:
> I would like to try PostgreSQL 8.3 without uninstalling version 8.1.
>
> Is this possible??

Hi Bob,

Yes, it is - it's usually a matter of putting the two versions to listen
on two different ports. I haven't done it myself, but this crops up from
time to time on this list, so it'd be worth your while having a trawl
through the archives.

HTH,

Ray.

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Re: Version 8.3

From
"Alexander Staubo"
Date:
On 10/27/07, Bob Pawley <rjpawley@shaw.ca> wrote:
> I would like to try PostgreSQL 8.3 without uninstalling version 8.1.
>
> Is this possible??

Sure. If you're on Unix, download the source and install it somewhere
in, say, your home directory. This requires a certain familiarity with
the shell, however, but it's fairly straightforward as such things go.
If you're on Windows I believe you will need Microsoft's compiler.

Alexander.

Re: Version 8.3

From
Andreas
Date:
Alexander Staubo schrieb:
> On 10/27/07, Bob Pawley <rjpawley@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> I would like to try PostgreSQL 8.3 without uninstalling version 8.1.
>> Is this possible??
>>
>
> Sure. If you're on Unix, download the source and install it somewhere
> in, say, your home directory. This requires a certain familiarity with
> the shell, however, but it's fairly straightforward as such things go.
> If you're on Windows I believe you will need Microsoft's compiler.
>

On windows one just has to change the listening port within the binary
installer so the 2 servers dont collide later.
The installer puts every version in its own directory by default.
In this case probaply
C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.1
C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.3-beta1

It's more important to mind the directory within the operational releases.
I'm not quite sure if one gets automatically
C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.2
C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.2.1
C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.2...

Bob, you just want to watch which client software version you run
against which server.
The beta comes with tools like psql, pgAdmin3, pg_dump ...
It might be advised not to rely on the beta's clients when you work with
operational data in server 8.2.