Re: Version 8.3

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.