Re: Upgrade from 9.5.4 to 9.6.1

On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, John R Pierce wrote:

> 9.5 is considered a major version, 9.5.4 is a minor. this will change
> when 10 is released, from 10 on, major versions will be 10, 11, 12, ...

John,

So the upgrade from 9.5.4 to 9.6.1 is as I assumed: major.

> based on the data paths you gave, I'm guessing you're on a
> redhat/centos/fedora type distribution? those put the binaries in
> /usr/pgsql-X.Y/bin for version X.Y

Actually, slackware. No /usr/pgsql-x/ at all. Slackware binaries (and
packages such as postgres provided by SlackBuilds.org are all installed in
/bin/. There are no /bin directories associated with postgres.

So, I'll go the pg_dumpall route then.

Thanks very much,

Rich