Re: upgrading to postgresql 7.1
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:49:49AM +1000 , Brian May wrote:
> Hello,
>
> has anybody been able to upgrade to postgresql 7.1?
yes. dump. purge. install. reload - there are IMHO way too much possible
configurations to can safely do this automaticaly. And that's what is the
.deb also trying to do - automaticaly. So do it by hand and you're OK.
> Any ideas? Or, would I be better of re-entering my data into a
> database like mysql? How do the upgrades of mysql compare with
> postgresql?
they mostly use tha same on-disk DB, so it really doesn't matter. you can I
think run with old DB with new server and even convert it on the fly
Petr Cech
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