X-Original-To: pgsql-admin-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EEC3A40C8 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:53:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48959-06 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:53:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from trade-india.com (unknown [203.101.29.41]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77A1D3A40C2 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:53:24 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 5383 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2004 05:47:42 -0000 Received: from system100.trade-india-local.com (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (192.168.0.100) by system66.trade-india-local.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2004 05:47:42 -0000 Message-ID: <417C9524.2080001@trade-india.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:24:44 +0530 From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjwhite@cisco.com Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.4.5 References: <200410220541.i9M5flk2007783@sj-core-1.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <200410220541.i9M5flk2007783@sj-core-1.cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200410/318 X-Sequence-Number: 15311 The release notes of upgrades usually indicate whether initdb is required or not. Generally when the last digit of a version change it does not require a dump and reload. In this case the release notes say: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release.html#RELEASE-7-4-5 E.1.1. Migration to version 7.4.5 A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X Regds mallah. Chris White (cjwhite) wrote: > Will a DB created under 7.4.2 work with 7.4.5, or do I need to back it > up and restore it to a newly created 7.5.4 DB? > > Chris White -- regds Mallah. Rajesh Kumar Mallah +---------------------------------------------------+ | Tradeindia.com (3,11,246) Registered Users | | Indias' Leading B2B eMarketPlace | | http://www.tradeindia.com/ | +---------------------------------------------------+