Re: PostGIS packages should not remove older libs

From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-yum(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jeff Frost <jfrost(at)pgexperts(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PostGIS packages should not remove older libs
Date: 2014-09-21 19:40:25
Message-ID: 1411328425.7047.7.camel@asus-laptop-03.gunduz.org
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Hi,

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 14:00 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

> The current pgdg RPMs for PostGIS remove the older .so files when you
> upgrade PostGIS. This is bad policy because it forces the user to
> shut down the database application in order to upgrade PostGIS. If
> the older libs are left in place, you can do an online upgrade of
> PostGIS without a downtime.
>
> Please change the RPMs so that they do not remove the older .so files
> when you upgrade.

Can you please clarify this for me? Do you mean that we should keep .so
files of 2.1.3 , when someone upgrades to 2.1.4?

Regards,
--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

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