From: "Leif B. Kristensen" <leif@solumslekt.org>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:28:33 +0100
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On Tuesday 13. November 2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>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.

I've started a thread about it in the Portage & Programming section of 
forums.gentoo.org:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-615494.html

I hope that someone more knowledgeable than me will be able to 
contribute in bringing this issue to the attention of the Gentoo 
developers, and hopefully work out a solution. Sure, there are other 
Gentoo users than me around here?
-- 
Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009
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