Hi,
On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 08:17 +0530, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
>
> I am thinking of using 9.5 alpha on a (non-production) database
> server that is currently running 9.2. The server is CentOS 6.4. Can I
> just do rpm -Uvh and hope it will all be fine or do I have to go
> through full dump/restore or even the pg_upgrade-based procedure?
Depends on how you installed 9.2 on CentOS 6.4. If you used the
community RPMs for 9.2, then you can install 9.5 in parallel and then
use pg_upgrade.
However, if they are CentOS RPMs, then first replace them with
community RPMs (fully binary compatible, only default $PGDATA is
difference), and then install 9.5.
Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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