On Thursday 26 April 2007 9:47 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > Unlike my previous upgrade from the 7.4.x series to the 8.1.x series, I > now have all data in /var/lib/pgsql/data. Currently running 8.1.4 on my > Slackware system and want to upgrade to 8.2.4, so I'm checking my procedure > before inadvertently creating major problems for myself. > > What I believe should work -- and I'd like conformation or corrections, > please -- is the following: > > 1) Run 'pg_dumpall > pg8.1.4.sql' as user postgres. Generally it is a better idea to dump the old version with the new versions pg_dump,pg_dumpall commands. The new versions know more about the old versions of the database than the other way around. > 2) Stop the running postmaster as root. > 3) Upgrade the Slackware package to 8.2.4 as root. > 4) Restart the postmaster as root. > 5) Run 'psql -f pg8.1.4.sql postgres' as user postgres. > > Have I missed a critical step? The upgrade will replace the existing > files with the new ones in the same directories. > > TIA, > > Rich I generally copy the old version(while it is shutdown) to another directory and then install the new version. I modify the postgresql.conf in the directory containing the old version so that Postgres listens on a different port and start it up. I can then use the pg_dump(all) commands from the new version to pull from the old version. The catch is that you need enough room for both copies of the database. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
