From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Leif B. Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:00:41 -0300
Message-ID: <20071113160041.GA19014@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711131655.59501.leif@solumslekt.org>
References: <200711121442.31233.josh@agliodbs.com>
<200711131655.59501.leif@solumslekt.org>
Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> On Monday 12. November 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >I'm thinking that we need to warn everyone about:
> >1) They need to use 8.3's pg_dump, not the old version, to upgrade
>
> Isn't there a chicken-and-egg problem here? On my Gentoo system, I have
> always been forced to uninstall the old version before upgrading to a
> new version.
That's a Gentoo shortcoming, nothing more.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre
"Endurecerse, pero jamás perder la ternura" (E. Guevara)
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