On Tuesday 06 December 2005 16:55, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > For one thing going from 7.x.y to 7.x.z is supposed not to > > require a dump/restore cycle by the PostgreSQL folks > > already. And if it DID require that for some obscure reason > > there would be a BIG FAT WARNING prior to any damage being > > done by the folks on the *Debian* side, too. So, two > > safeguards. > > Not only a warning. The database is pg_dump-ed for you and the postinstall > script tries to rebuild your database. Only if this fails you will visit > you will get some instructions how to proceed now. I observed two or three > postgresql updates that were not compatible and required pg_dump to move > the database to the new version. I did not observed any inconveniences... sweet > > Kind regards > > Andreas.
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