Re: Upgrading from 7.2 to 7.4.1 on Redhat 7

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jeremy Smith wrote:

> Thanks Lamar
>
> I will try that link later, for some reason it's not coming up now. I tried
> one of the FTPs off of the postgresql.org site, and the folder for 7.4.1 and
> Redhat 7.3 was empty.
>
> Btw, I have removed my RPM installation of 7.4.0, and my failed attempt at
> installing 7.4.1 and am now left with a working version of 7.3.3. I am
> almost tempted to just go ahead and use this verion and give up on all the
> installing and uninstalling. Is there alot I would be missing out on by not
> having 7.4.1? I plan on leasing a new server in June that would likely have
> Red Hat Enterprise on it, and hopefully it would either have an up to date
> version of postgrese, or no version at all for a clean installation. I have
> so much work to do on my site that I hate spending valuable time on this..

7.4 generally is vastly superior to 7.3 in many ways. I don't know the
differences between 7.4 and 7.4.1 apart from how useful autovacuum is.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lamar Owen [mailto:lowen(at)pari(dot)edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:29 PM
> To: jer(at)highboard(dot)com; scott.marlowe
> Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading from 7.2 to 7.4.1 on Redhat 7
>
>
> On Tuesday 10 February 2004 07:37 pm, Jeremy Smith wrote:
> > I actually had to install version 7.4.0 as there weren't any RPMs for
> 7.4.1
> > on Redhat 7.3. I am setting up some tables using phpPGadmin right now,
> and
> > there is a link for "vacuum" so maybe that's it..
>
> Look in
> ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/var/spool/ftp/pub/binary/v7.4.1/redhat/redhat-7.3
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