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* After upgrade cleanup
@ 2008-06-19 13:13 Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
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From: Carol Walter @ 2008-06-19 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-admin
Greetings, one and all,
I just did an upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2.3. We'll go up to 8.3.3 very
soon, but for reasons I won't go into, this intermediate step was
necessary. My problem is, now that the upgrade is done, how can I
clean up the database from the old version. I leave the original
database up as long as I can when I do an upgrade just in case I need
to revert to it. Now I have the databases from two versions on my
server and I need to get rid of the old one. Can I just remove the
old files from the data directories? With other systems, I've had
trouble removing database files because upgrades use certain files
from old versions. I don't want to break my new database. I'm on
Solaris 10.
Thanks,
Carol
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* Re: After upgrade cleanup
@ 2008-06-20 21:19 Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
parent: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
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From: Decibel! @ 2008-06-20 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>; +Cc: pgsql-admin
On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Carol Walter wrote:
> I just did an upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2.3. We'll go up to 8.3.3 very
> soon, but for reasons I won't go into, this intermediate step was
> necessary. My problem is, now that the upgrade is done, how can I
> clean up the database from the old version. I leave the original
> database up as long as I can when I do an upgrade just in case I
> need to revert to it. Now I have the databases from two versions
> on my server and I need to get rid of the old one. Can I just
> remove the old files from the data directories? With other
> systems, I've had trouble removing database files because upgrades
> use certain files from old versions. I don't want to break my new
> database. I'm on Solaris 10.
Not only does the new version not use files from the old, it doesn't
even know it exists. You can just nuke all the 8.1 stuff.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org
Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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* Re: After upgrade cleanup
@ 2008-07-01 19:54 Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
parent: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
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From: Scott Marlowe @ 2008-07-01 19:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>; +Cc: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>; pgsql-admin
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Carol Walter wrote:
>>
>> I just did an upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2.3. We'll go up to 8.3.3 very soon,
>> but for reasons I won't go into, this intermediate step was necessary. My
>> problem is, now that the upgrade is done, how can I clean up the database
>> from the old version. I leave the original database up as long as I can
>> when I do an upgrade just in case I need to revert to it. Now I have the
>> databases from two versions on my server and I need to get rid of the old
>> one. Can I just remove the old files from the data directories? With other
>> systems, I've had trouble removing database files because upgrades use
>> certain files from old versions. I don't want to break my new database.
>> I'm on Solaris 10.
>
>
> Not only does the new version not use files from the old, it doesn't even
> know it exists. You can just nuke all the 8.1 stuff.
If you're paranoid, then you can also do:
sudo chmod 000 /old/data/dir
and see if anything breaks.
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