Re: Upgrading on RH72

On Saturday 10 August 2002 01:22 pm, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> ----------------->>>>
> BTW, the PGDG RPMs should take care of the upgrading process
> automatically, but there are always pitfalls so you may as well be
> careful.

Correction here.  The PGDG RPMs _Try_ to help you, but it is far from
automatic.  It is better to dump first and restore, if you can.

> ----------------->>>>
> Sounds good.

> 3.  Tried rpm -U postgresql-7.2.1-2PGDG.i386.rpm but it fails with:
>  error: failed dependencies:
>          postgresql = 7.1.3 is needed by postgresql-server-7.1.3-2
> Am I not doing this correctly?

The PostgreSQL RPM's have a number of interdependencies.  You need to rpm -U
all of the ones you want on a single line.
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Lamar Owen
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