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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:50:35AM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> Under Debian Sarge, the command
> 
> apt-cache policy postgresql
> 
> gives me
> 
> postgresql:
>   Installed: 7.4.5-3
>   Candidate: 7.4.7-6sarge1
>   Version Table:
>      7.4.7-6sarge1 0
>         500 http://debian.savoirfairelinux.net sarge/main Packages
>  *** 7.4.5-3 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> So:
> 
> 1. if I run apt-get update, will 7.4.7-6sarge1 replace my existing 
> postgres,
yes

> and can I do that regardless of whether GNUmed has been 
> loaded, and the gnumed bootstrap done
yes

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.

> 2. running apt-cache pkgnames postgres gave the following, additional 
> available packages.
> I know I don't need all of them, but are any required or recommended 
> if I aim to run GNUmed on my server?

> postgresql-autodoc
only if you want to *create* docs as we do in the wiki

> postgresql-client
yes

> postgresql-contrib
yes

> postgresql-doc
well, useful

Karsten
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