Upgrading to 7.2

From: Francisco Reyes <lists(at)natserv(dot)com>
To: Pgsql Novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Upgrading to 7.2
Date: 2002-02-15 17:15:40
Message-ID: 20020215121355.N66634-100000@zoraida.natserv.net
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Quick question.
Does initdb deletes the old database?

I will be upgrading shortly to 7.2 and the steps will be:
pg_dumpall from 7.13
install 7.2
initdb
psql to read old data

I am wondering if initdb will delete the old data or if it is safer to
blow away the data from the directories.

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