On 01/08/2007, at 4:02 PM, Billy Kwong wrote:
As long as the installed files and DBs are in different locations,
and both
postmasters of different versions are listening on different
ports, then
yes you can do that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Ubuntu and Debian already
supports
having multiple versions running if you use their PostgreSQL packages.
yeah, that's my understanding, too. I replied to this already but the
email to
the list got eaten. 8.1 and up supports multiple versions installed
at the same
time, but they conflict with 7, so obviously you can't have version 7
and 8
packages installed along side each other.
If it was me, I'd install the version 8 package, and 7 via source in /
usr/local.
That way you'll be able to install later versions of postgres
packages without
conflicts.
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