RE: Upgrade procedure

>From: rihad <rihad(at)mail(dot)ru>

>Hi, all. Why is it normally suggested to stop the server, upgrade it, then start it? Wouldn't it be easier & quicker to simply upgrade the package in-place and restart the service? On OSen that allow modification of currently running binaries, which is most Unix OS, M$ Windows being a notable exception )

That might be possible on a minor upgrade, but quite probably not on a major version upgrade. I'm reasonably sure I've read that a major upgrade *can* change underlying data/structures for tables and other things. I don't think you want version-X writing to the tables on disk while version-Y writes a new layout to the same files at the same time. 😊

As always, see the fine manual, especially the part on upgrades and release notes.

Kevin

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