upgrading postgres

[Pierre Abbat]

On Wednesday 14 April 2010 05:23:14 Jan Lentfer wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:03:25 -0400, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu>
>
> wrote:
> > Do I have to manually remove postgres82 and then install postgres84?
>
> When Upgrading from 8.2 to 8.4 you ALWAYS have to pgdump_all your database
> and restore it after you installed the new version. You can't upgrade just
> like that when it is not a minor upgrade (e.g. 8.x.a to 8.x.b).

I don't have a database on the laptop. I'm going to copy a small database from 
the desktop to the laptop so that I can bring it to Penguicon.

So what's the step-by-step procedure to upgrade Postgres?

Pierre
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