On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:56, Ben Munat wrote: > Jason Stubbs wrote: > > However, I wouldn't do it while the server is running in production (even > > if there was no block). > > Yeah... and that sucks beyond belief. My virtual mail aliases are stored > in a postgres db. So, while postgres is being updated, no one at any of > my domains gets any mail. Great. > > It's days like this when I wonder why I ever bothered with gentoo.
It's not a Gentoo thing. It's not particularly safe to upgrade a database while in production with any distribution - or on any OS for that matter. At the very least, you should run through what you want to do on a test system and make sure it goes smoothly first. -- Jason Stubbs -- [email protected] mailing list
