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From: Yongye Serkfem <[email protected]>
To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bash profile
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:17:00 -0500
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I am upgrading from version 12.7 to 15.7

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 2:15 PM Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM Yongye Serkfem <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone!
>> I would appreciate any assistance with configuring the bash profile to
>> run two different postgresql versions. Specifically V12.7 and 15.7
>>
>
> Create a bash function that exports PGDATA to the relevant directory,
> based on the parameter you pass.
> Add as much error checking (to ensure that the parameter you passed
> actually points to a real data dir and that the postmaster is running.  How
> you do that depends on whether it's Debian-based, RH-based or something
> else.
>
> We, for example, have standardized on data directories in the format:
> /Database/<MajorVer>/data
>
> Thus, something as simple as this would work for us:
> pgswitch() { export PGDATA=/Database/${1}/data ; }
>
> --
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> Don't boil me, I'm still alive.
> <Redacted> lobster!
>

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