Re: rhdb to v8 upgrade procedure

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Hi,

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Keith Worthington wrote:

> Last week I upgraded from RedHat database (PostgreSQL v7.3.8) to PostgreSQL
> v8rc5.  This involved what I thought was some challenging changes because I
> had to remove the rpms, compile and install the code and finally modify the
> RedHat start up scripts.  I tried to keep fairly detailed notes of the
> process.  It might be useful for someone moving from RedHat rpms to a Postgres
> release.  Anyone interested?

Himm... Instead, you could take a full dump with pg_dumpall, backup
/var/lib/pgsql (in case of emergency), remove previous RPMs,  install RPMs
for 8.0 and reload the data... This is a simple process...

Regards,
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Devrim GUNDUZ
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