Re: Version Problems on Mac OS X.2 Jaguar

You will have to dump 7.2 before moving to 7.3. 7.3 requires a db
init. So your best bet is to recompile 7.2 on 10.2.

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 01:17 PM, Babu Khan wrote:

> Thanks Jeffrey,
>
> I am aware of the page by Marc Liyanage, infact I
> tried to update according to the instructions, but my
> problem is that pg_dump is not working ( it gives some
> undefined variable in libararies errors), so if I need
> to upgrade to 7.3 from 7.2.1.5 can I do it without
> backing up the data. i understand this is only
> possible if internal table structures, etc haven't
> changed in 7.3 from 7.2.1.5
>
> babu.
> --- Jeffrey Bohmer <bohmer(at)visionlink(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> 7.3 and later compile on OS X 10.2, 7.2.x don't
>> without tweaks. Upgrading is probably your best
>> bet.
>>
>> Some people have used fink to get 7.2.x working with
>> 10.2. I used a distribution put together by Marc
>> Liyanage (sp?), which I can't find on the web
>> anymore. I still have my copies of this
>> distribution for 7.2.1, 7.2.2, and 7.2.3. If you
>> want any of them, contact me off-list.
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> I have a BIIG poblem.
>>>
>>> We had some application running on Mac OS X.1 using
>>> postgres 7.2.1.5. Recently we decided to upgrade to
>>> Mac OS X.2 Jaguar.
>>>
>>> Now this is where the problem starts. After the
>>> upgrade although the application runs, i am unable
>> to
>>> run psql, pg_dump etc. After research, I learnt
>> that
>>> this is because postgres was compiled for OS 10.1
>> and
>>> now I should re-compile it for 10.2. For this I
>> need
>>> to backup the data right? or can I just simply run
>> the
>>> postgres.pkg file for 7.2.1.5 again and that will
>> not
>>> disturb the current data in the database??
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help....
>>>
>>> babu
>> --
>>
>> Jeff Bohmer
>> VisionLink, Inc.
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