Re: how to downgrade Postgres in Ubuntu

On 06/02/2016 12:46 PM, David Osborne wrote:
> You can sometimes do "apt-get install postgresql-9.3=9.3.4-1"
>
> But often the OS cannot work out where to get hold of the requested version.
>
> Alternatively you can check in /var/cache/apt/archives.
> If the .deb file for the downlevel version is still there (copy it out
> so it's not cleaned up in future), and you can do "dpkg -i
> postgres-9.3_9.3.4-1.deb"
>
> Failing that, you can download the downlevel deb file from somewhere.
> (perhaps here? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-9.3 )

On Debian we have snapshots (http://snapshot.debian.org/), not sure if
Ubuntu provides a similar service, but the Postgres packages are similar
enough that you could try that as a last resort.

Regards

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