Re: upgrading from 9.3-beta1 to 9.3-beta2 requires dump & reload?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com>, maintainers(at)lists(dot)pgrpms(dot)org, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: upgrading from 9.3-beta1 to 9.3-beta2 requires dump & reload?
Date: 2013-07-24 21:05:37
Message-ID: 29864.1374699937@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Lonni J Friedman escribi:
>> I'm using the RPMs from yum.postgresql.org on RHEL6. Is this
>> expected, intentional behavior? Do I really need to dump & reload to
>> upgrade between beta releases of 9.3, or is there some more efficient
>> way?

> We try to avoid forcing initdb between beta versions, but it's not
> guaranteed. You should be able to use pg_upgrade, also.

Unfortunately, the RPMs probably won't be very helpful for using
pg_upgrade, since there's no convenient way to get beta1 and beta2
postmaster executables installed at the same time (unless Devrim
foresaw this case and packaged things differently than I did for
Red Hat ;-)).

regards, tom lane

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