Re: newer release branch

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Marc Fromm <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: newer release branch
Date: 2010-10-06 22:02:54
Message-ID: AANLkTinwRe_QPHcM9_vAi66KOhdsp+sP61EUcehUSap+@mail.gmail.com
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2010/10/6 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>:
> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 10:57 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>
>> > Can it be done using yum on a RHEL server?
>>
>> You will probably need both 8.1 and 9.0 installed at the same time.
>> I don't know if yum will overwrite the old version or put the new
>> one in its own location without disturbing the old one.
>
> 9.0 can be installed in parallel with yum, however still a dump/restore
> or replication/failover type thing is needed, since 8.1 is not supported
> by pg_upgrade.

Really? I've gotten apt based systems to run > 1 pg versions with
packages, but never rpm based. Especially not Centos or RHEL. Has
Fedora / yum started aachieved that?

I'd build a test server running 9.0.1 and test backing up from 8.0.x
and restoring to 9.0.1 before I did anything else, and then see how my
app worked.

Look out for missing type conversions.

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