Re: 14.4 If You Are Upgrading - Suggested Improvements

Done, patch attached.

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Updated text:
> >
> > The internal data storage format typically changes in every major
> > release of <productname>PostgreSQL</>. Therefore, if you are upgrading
> > an existing installation that does not have a version number of
> > <quote>&majorversion;.x</quote>, you must back up and restore your
> > data. If you are upgrading from the same major version, the new version
> > can use your current data files so you should skip the backup and
> > restore steps below because they are unnecessary.
>
> That's better, but I'd suggest using &majorversion;.x in the last
> sentence as well, instead of "the same major version", because some
> people does not yet grasp that we refer to "major" as the first two
> digits, instead thinking that all "7" versions are compatible, and all
> "8", etc.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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