| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | stephane(dot)schildknecht(at)postgres(dot)fr, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Automatic restart while upgrade |
| Date: | 2013-04-12 20:34:26 |
| Message-ID: | 51686FD2.30501@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 13/04/13 02:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> stephane(dot)schildknecht(at)postgres(dot)fr writes:
>> I discovered that while upgrading PostgreSQL binaries through 'yum
>> update', with PGDG RPMs, the service is automatically restarted.
>> ISTM that this was not the case before 9.2.
> I dunno whether Devrim's packages acted that way before 9.2, but
> this is standard behavior for all services in Red Hat environments,
> and always has been. Otherwise an intended security patch, for
> instance, might not be activated till long past when the admin
> thought he'd installed it.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
As far as I can recall: that is standard yum behaviour for all packages
updated, rather than installed, for over 10 years, I first stared using
Red Hat, now Fedora, in about 2001.
Cheers,
Gavin
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