From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199907302034.QAA05191@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading from 6.5.0 to 6.5.1
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	from Peter Eisentraut at "Jul 30, 1999 04:16:56 pm"
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@pathwaynet.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:34:29 -0400 (EDT)
CC: pgsql-admin@postgreSQL.org,
	"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <docs@postgreSQL.org>
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> I just want to verify this: when I update between the said versions, can I
> just keep the data directory around (no need to dump/restore)? Would that
> eliminate the need to run initdb?
> 
> It seems like this could be made slightly clearer in the documentation.

No dump/restore, no initdb.  Where should we put it?

I see the problem.  The INSTALL file does not contain any mention of
this.  I did the Release notes, but did not add to INSTALL/install.sgml.
I should add something to the install.sgml file.  Another problem is
that the top of the INSTALL says:

       5. Release Notes                                   
          Release 6.5.1                                   
             Migration to v6.5.1                          
             Detailed Change List                         
          Release 6.5                                     
             Migration to v6.5                            
                 Multi-Version Concurrency Control        
             Detailed Change List                         


But when you get down to section 5, you see:
	
	Chapter 5. Release Notes
	
	Release 6.5
	
	        This release marks a major step in the development 
	       team's mastery of the source code we inherited from 
	       Berkeley. You will see we are now easily adding major 

So it seems the 6.5.1 changes are not listed in the INSTALL file, though
there was some attempt to add them.  Thomas, does this make sense?

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