Re: (A) native Windows port

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: (A) native Windows port
Date: 2002-07-02 16:04:05
Message-ID: 200207021204.05329.matthew@zeut.net
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> The question is not how to replace some .EXE and .DLL files or modify
> something in the registry. The question is what to do with the existing
> databases in the case of a catalog version change. You have to dump and
> restore.

pg_upgrade?

Otherwise: no upgrades persay, but you can intall the new version into a new
directory and then have an automated pg_dump / restore between the old and
the new. This would require a lot of disk space, but I don't see any other
clean way to automate it.

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