On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > And unfortunately, a new PostgreSQL IS incompatible, because if you just run > "yum update", your databases will cease to work. You have to actually dump > them BEFORE doing the upgrade (or downgrade PostgreSQL for the dump, or > install the old version in parallel, which is not supported by the RPMs), > then do the upgrade, and then import the dump. As long as upstream does not > change this migration policy, it will NEVER be possible to provide newer > PostgreSQL release series un updates.
I thought PostgreSQL fixed that a couple of years ago - "upgrade in place" was the most-requested feature for a long time. But I can see why DBAs wouldn't trust it after having mastered the dump-upgrade-restore process. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
