Re: 1.16b4 upgrade report

Hi, Chief QA guy!

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Erwin Brandstetter
<brandstetter(at)falter(dot)at> wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> I installed the new 1.16b4 from Aug. 20.
> Windows XP Pro, I had the previous 1.16b2 installed and ran upgrade.bat.
>
> It all seems to work fine. Have made heavy use of it for a day and nothing
> bad happened. I'm especially happy that parameter defaults are included in
> function headers now. Good job!

:-)

> During installation I had a conflict with Mozilla Firefox. When the setup
> was done, it asked me to restart the computer, which I didn't and it worked
> anyway.
> Both of these were a first when running upgrade.bat. Not sure whether
> pgAdmin or something else on my machine caused this. I thought you should
> know, maybe it tells you something.
> The attached pic shows both popups side by side, the right one came later in
> the process, though.

That'll be the VC++ 2010 runtimes - they're installed using the
Microsoft supplied merge module, and may cause the issue you see if
something is already using the same runtimes. It will always try to
update them, even if the required version is already installed.
There's not much we can do about that I don't think.

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