On 12 June 2010 18:15, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Thom Brown wrote: >> >> The only options available are: >> >> >> > <snip> >> > >> >> Are those instructions for an older version? >> >> >> > >> > That's Bruce's book which is probably 8 or 9 years old now. It's >> > almost certainly referring to the old pg_upgrade shell script from >> > years ago. >> > >> >> Ah, unfortunately that's the first result in Google. I've resorted to > > I am sure that will change soon. :-) The right URL is now #7 on > Google: > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgupgrade.html > >> restoring from a full backup :( I don't think I could use it for >> upgrading from beta 1 to beta 2 anyway by the looks of things. The >> binary directories are updated since they share the same version >> number. > > You certainly could have. The docs say: > > F.31.1. Supported Versions > > pg_upgrade supports upgrades from 8.3.X and later to the current major > release of PostgreSQL, including snapshot and alpha releases. > > In fact, we were hoping people would test pg_upgrade during the required > beta2 catalog change. >
How would that work if the beta1 binaries are overwritten by the beta2 binaries since they both share the same version number? Thom -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
