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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:34:07 -0700
From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
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To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: New postgres installation
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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