Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Postgres: which one (or many) under Debian, to install or upgrade

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:55, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > For one thing going from 7.x.y to 7.x.z is supposed not to
> > require a dump/restore cycle by the PostgreSQL folks
> > already. And if it DID require that for some obscure reason
> > there would be a BIG FAT WARNING prior to any damage being
> > done by the folks on the *Debian* side, too. So, two
> > safeguards.
>
> Not only a warning.  The database is pg_dump-ed for you and the postinstall
> script tries to rebuild your database.  Only if this fails you will visit
> you will get some instructions how to proceed now.  I observed two or three
> postgresql updates that were not compatible and required pg_dump to move
> the database to the new version.  I did not observed any inconveniences...
sweet
>
> Kind regards
>
>             Andreas.

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