Re: newer release branch

2010/10/6 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>:
> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 10:57 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>
>> > Can it be done using yum on a RHEL server?
>>
>> You will probably need both 8.1 and 9.0 installed at the same time.
>> I don't know if yum will overwrite the old version or put the new
>> one in its own location without disturbing the old one.
>
> 9.0 can be installed in parallel with yum, however still a dump/restore
> or replication/failover type thing is needed, since 8.1 is not supported
> by pg_upgrade.

Really?  I've gotten apt based systems to run > 1 pg versions with
packages, but never rpm based.  Especially not Centos or RHEL.  Has
Fedora / yum started aachieved that?

I'd build a test server running 9.0.1 and test backing up from 8.0.x
and restoring to 9.0.1 before I did anything else, and then see how my
app worked.

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