On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Gerhard Hintermayer < gerhard.hinterma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for posting this again, but my last post regarding this > problematic wasn't answered satisfyingly. (maybe I didn't find the > right words for my question ;-) ) > > > is this (or a minor upgrade) a "safe" way to go under linux ? I'm on a > production system and I don't want to restart the DB server while the > factory is in production, but be sure that i'm prepared the next time > I'll do a restart. Of course I could wait for a factory shutdown on a > weekend, stop server, upgrade/reinstall and restart, but I'd prefer a > "on the fly upgrade". > (this is required due to a changed upstream library dependancy (major > perl upgrade) running gentoo) > Yes, this should be safe. But make sure your new version is usable (or at least have all required libs linked). -- Vladimir Rusinov http://greenmice.info/
