upgrading postgres

[Antonio Huete Jimenez]

Jan,

Thanks for the clarification. I thought we were speaking just about
the pkg manager specific stuff, but it's good to know PSQL specific
stuff also. No much clue about it :-)

_Antonio H.

2010/4/14 Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer at web.de>:
> 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).
>
> Jan
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