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

[Syan Tan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Syan Tan 
To: Karsten Hilbert 
Sent: Wed Dec  7  6:18
Subject: Fwd: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Postgres: which one (or many) under Debian,
 	to install or upgrade

what's used from contrib?

When people say , "it's in the wiki", please post a hyperlink.



On Tue Dec 6 12:41 , Karsten Hilbert sent:

> 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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