From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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To: | Ivan Voras <ivoras(at)freebsd(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Major upgrade of PostgreSQL and MySQL |
Date: | 2013-09-13 13:04:24 |
Message-ID: | 20130913130424.GO2706@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Ivan Voras (ivoras(at)freebsd(dot)org) wrote:
> If I read the documentation correctly
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgupgrade.html) it needs
> oldbindir and newbindir arguments pointing to the directories of
> PostgreSQL executables for the old and new versions, making it basically
> unusable for upgrading systems which are maintained with packages
> instead of individually compiling & installing custom versions of
> PostgreSQL, right? (except possibly Debian which may allow multiple pg
> versions to be installed, I haven't tried it).
Uhm, don't basically all Debian-based and RedHat-based distributions
support having multiple major versions installed concurrently? It's a
pretty reasonable thing to need and, imv anyway, all packaging of PG
should support it.
Thanks,
Stephen
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