From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Gerd Koenig <koenig@transporeon.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: upgrade via rpm
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:51:58 -0700
Message-ID: <dcc563d10812071251u6400a09an8e23e856ba137d8b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D27DDD3F-62B1-4465-BC8F-3235B89F97D8@transporeon.com>
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Gerd Koenig <koenig@transporeon.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we're planning an upgrade from Postgres 8.3.1 to latest 8.3.5 via rpm
> (Opensuse 10.3 - 64bit).
> Is it really that simple ?
>
> 1.) stop cluster (e.g. pg_ctl stop)
> 2.) perform the upgrade (rpm -Uvh *.rpm)
> 3.) start the cluster (pg_ctl start)
>
> thanks in advance....GERD.....
yep but.
0.) take a backup -- always just in case
assuming the rpms are built from the same .spec (i.e. things like
integer timestamps don't change) then it is that easy.
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