From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: New postgres installation
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:34:07 -0700
Message-ID: <48A488AF.9090908@pinpointresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78D8C997-9EA7-4D3A-B46A-B135BC633484@indiana.edu>
References: <78D8C997-9EA7-4D3A-B46A-B135BC633484@indiana.edu>
Carol Walter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to do a new installation of postgres. I have version 8.2.3 and
> I want to go to 8.3.3. The postgres documentation says that the
> default location for the installation is /usr/local/pgsql. My
> installation has obviously been customized because I have no such path
> on my system. The documentation also says you can customize the
> location by including prefix = */PREFIX/* in the ./configuration file.
> Is there a way I can tell what this customization was? There are
> several directories that contain many of the same files. I have
> several installations of postgres running on different servers. If
> this is anything like everything else I've seen there, quite possibly,
> is a different customization for each server.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Carol Walter
>
>
What OS?
How do you plan to install (source?, package-manager?)
Do you need to save data from old installation?
Do you have any client applications that need testing (or is this to
test them)? There are a few changes that could bite you (changes to
automatic casting and changed cluster syntax to name a couple).
Cheers,
Steve
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