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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Postgres: which one (or many) under Debian, to in
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Sebastian Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Postgres: which one (or many) under Debian, to install or upgrade |
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Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:21:12 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:55, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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...
sweet
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
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