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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 23:16:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: linux standard layout
From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: "Plugge, Joe R." <JRPlugge@west.com>
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Plugge, Joe R. <JRPlugge@west.com> wrote:
> A word of caution for packages/rpms. =A0Beware of admins who apply ALL up=
dates that are available to a system. =A0I have seen this happen taking Pos=
tgres from say vresion 8.3.X to 8.4.X, which as you can imagine, caused pro=
blems.

I've never used an OS that upgraded major versions of pg midstream.
I.e. going from ubuntu 8.04 to 9.10 yeah maybe.  Going from one update
to the next of 8.04 no way.  What OS have you seen this happen in ?

Note that it's still a good idea to put things like kernels and pgsql
into the exclude catagories in the yum conf.