Re: Postgres removing old database
Tomas Berndtsson wrote:
>Recently, I upgraded from Postgres 6.5.3 (stable Debian) to Postgres
>7.0 (unstable). During the installation, it didn't ask me anything,
>besides overwriting the config files. Instead it gladly removed all my
>databases which were in /var/lib/postgres/data/base/.
The only known case when the database gets removed is in a purge, and then
only if you say yes when asked.
>Luckily, I had made a dump myself, prior to the upgrade, so there was
>no problem getting them back, but it would've been a good idea to have
>it dump and restore the databases itself. I can remember an older
>upgrade of postgres (6.0 -> 6.5 perhaps?) doing just this, so I wonder
>why this didn't.
It should have done; I can't think why it didn't. If you can repeat
the operation and capture the whole session with script, I might be
able to see what happened.
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