Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: "Leif B(dot) Kristensen" <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: 2007-11-13 16:00:41
Message-ID: 20071113160041.GA19014@alvh.no-ip.org
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Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
> On Monday 12. November 2007, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >I'm thinking that we need to warn everyone about:
> >1) They need to use 8.3's pg_dump, not the old version, to upgrade
>
> Isn't there a chicken-and-egg problem here? On my Gentoo system, I have
> always been forced to uninstall the old version before upgrading to a
> new version.

That's a Gentoo shortcoming, nothing more.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre
"Endurecerse, pero jamás perder la ternura" (E. Guevara)

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