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From: | Andreas Tille |
Subject: | [Gnumed-devel] Re: Postgres: which one (or many) under Debian, to install or upgrade |
Date: | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 16:55:35 +0100 (CET) |
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
For one thing going from 7.x.y to 7.x.z is supposed not to require a dump/restore cycle by the PostgreSQL folks already. And if it DID require that for some obscure reason there would be a BIG FAT WARNING prior to any damage being done by the folks on the *Debian* side, too. So, two safeguards.
Not only a warning. The database is pg_dump-ed for you and the postinstall script tries to rebuild your database. Only if this fails you will visit you will get some instructions how to proceed now. I observed two or three postgresql updates that were not compatible and required pg_dump to move the database to the new version. I did not observed any inconveniences... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
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