Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> writes: > If the catalog versions match then you shouldn't need to do an > initdb; if they're different then you will. Making a full dump > anyway before upgrading might be prudent just in case, however. > The most recent catalog version change appears to have been committed > on 2004/11/05. I think 8.0.0beta4 was the next version after that, > so if you're running 8.0.0beta4 or later then I wouldn't expect an > initdb to be required to move to 8.0.0. But don't hold me to that.... This information is easy to discern from the cvsweb page for catversion.h: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/catalog/catversion.h which shows that versions older than beta5 will require an initdb. (The apparent update on 12/31 was just to change the copyright-date comment.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
