On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:07:42PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: >> Isn't your distribution supposed to do this for you? Mine does these >> days... > A distribution that tries to automatically do a major postgresql update > is doomed to fail - spectacularly... Automatically? Well, you can install the two versions side-by-side, and do pg_upgradecluster, which ports your configuration to the new version and does a pg_dump between the two versions; exactly what a system administrator would do. Of course, stuff _can_ fail, but it works for the simple cases, and a great deal of the not-so-simple cases. I did this for our cluster the other day (130 wildly different databases, from 7.4 to 8.1) and it worked flawlessly. I do not really see why all the distributions could do something like this, instead of mucking around with special statically compiled pg_dumps and the like... /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
