On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM, patrick keshishian<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Stuart Henderson<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2009/07/21 17:02, Jason Dixon wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:36:54PM -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote: >>> > Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: >>> > >>> >> Most users wont read the commit log, but do will a binary package >>> >> upgrade when the next release it out; can we have a post-install >>> >> message or something that warns people of this? >>> > >>> > Isn't post-install a little late? :-) >>> > >>> > IIRC, I had this problem moving from 8.2 to 8.3 (when upgrading my >>> > server from OpenBSD 4.3 to 4.4), and that happened when I was following >>> > the upgrade guide that specifically calls out the issue in the upgrade >>> > guide (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade44.html). >>> > >>> > Post-install isn't actually too late, since installing is not the same >>> > as running (which is where the problem is), but on a system with a >>> > decent number of packages it's hard to go through the post-install >>> > messages of EVERY upgraded package looking for problems at OS upgrade >>> > time. I dunno what a better solution is, having it in the upgrade guide >>> > seems like the best spot but obviously it's not perfect either. >>> >>> Reasonable solution (examples): >>> >>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=120637961514930&w=2 >>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120631560919405&w=2 >>> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080324162049 >>> >>> Expect an Undeadly story soonish. >> >> it can be a little easier this time. >> >> http://pg-migrator.projects.postgresql.org/ > > > I was hoping there would be an on-line documentation I could browse, > but nothing obvious from that URL. The IMPLEMENTATION and README in > the source dist are good reference points. The former ponts to the > following PDF presentation by Bruce Momjian (July '09) > > http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/pg_migrator.pdf > > > Thanks Stuart for the pointer. > > --patrick > >
I downloaded the pg_migrator tar ball to check it out and according to the INSTALL file, it looks like both instances (ie: v8.3 and v8.4) need to be on the machine for pg_migrator to work. Would this be possible here since the upgrade process would remove v8.3? -- Thanks, Ryan
