| From: | <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Efrain Caro <betsemes(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Jeff Hoffmann <jeff(at)propertykey(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Redhat 7 and PgSQL |
| Date: | 2000-09-29 17:13:29 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10009291312290.18021-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On 29 Sep 2000, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > But claiming that you can't upgrade is painting over what might rather be
> > a deficiency in the RPM mechanism, ISTM. Why can't you have a spec file
> > like this:
> >
> > %preupgrade
> > pg_dumpall >somewhere
>
>
> 1) You don't know that postgresql is running. It probably isn't.
> 2) You don't know that you have the diskspace to do that.
These are things that have to be considered regardless of the upgrade
mechanism.
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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