Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF0464FCD2 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:49:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15715-04 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:49:11 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB2964FCBF for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:49:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so29576997gxk.19 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.143.5 with SMTP id q5mr1892060ybd.7.1221767350713; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.156.1 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:49:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <937d27e10809181249x18a39de0j76c78b1ea8604672@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:49:10 +0100 From: "Dave Page" To: "Robert Treat" Subject: Re: Download links Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org, "Chander Ganesan" , "Tom Lane" , "Andrew Sullivan" In-Reply-To: <200809181530.00635.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <937d27e10808110203l790a9c3eud97fdde42f70b92f@mail.gmail.com> <48D240AF.8050204@otg-nc.com> <937d27e10809180457i617487eydb8cf54e463792c6@mail.gmail.com> <200809181530.00635.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200809/130 X-Sequence-Number: 15839 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Robert Treat wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 07:57:29 Dave Page wrote: >> They just run the latest version of the installer to upgrade - it >> takes even fewer clicks than the initial install (about 4 iirc). > > Do you handle the dump/reload process for them? (Not that I have ever seen > such methods work well, but I am curious how you handle it) No dump and reload would be required for the security releases Chander was referring to. For major releases, multiple versions install in parallel allowing the user to dump/reload manually, as per the Win32 installer. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com