Re: how to downgrade Postgres in Ubuntu

Thank you Markus, good to know that Debian has the snapshot service which is very handy. I’m not a Ubuntu fan, I prefer CentOS over Ubuntu…

Thanks,
Suya

On 6/2/16, 10:38 PM, "Markus Wanner" <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> wrote:

>On 06/02/2016 12:46 PM, David Osborne wrote:
>> You can sometimes do "apt-get install postgresql-9.3=9.3.4-1"
>>
>> But often the OS cannot work out where to get hold of the requested version.
>>
>> Alternatively you can check in /var/cache/apt/archives.
>> If the .deb file for the downlevel version is still there (copy it out
>> so it's not cleaned up in future), and you can do "dpkg -i
>> postgres-9.3_9.3.4-1.deb"
>>
>> Failing that, you can download the downlevel deb file from somewhere.
>> (perhaps here? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-9.3 )
>
>On Debian we have snapshots (http://snapshot.debian.org/) not sure if
>Ubuntu provides a similar service, but the Postgres packages are similar
>enough that you could try that as a last resort.
>
>Regards
>
>Markus
>