On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:39 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 03/03/12 7:01 PM, Chris Travers wrote: > >> On the negative, I have seen a yum-based upgrade between versions happily >> upgrade the binaries from 8.4.x to 9.0.x.... >> > > I haven't. > > I thought I was clear that my experiences thus far had not been RHEL/CentOS/SL because I tended to compile my own on such platforms. I have however seen Fedora do that, and it is a caution worth noting going forward. The question is what happens when new versions of RHEL come out, whether the postgresql-server package gets a new major version number. Hopefully by mentioning this now, we will make sure it doesn't ;-) Best Wishes, Chris Travers
