What about the INSTALL file in the postgresql source?
It's got a section on upgrading...
On 3 Jul 2002, Robert Treat wrote:
> I don't think there is a README specifically for this, but here are some
> relevant links you'll want to read over:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?install-upgrading.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?release-7-2.html
>
> also you might want to check out the contrib directories in the source,
> there are some utilities there that might be of interest to you. Also
> depending on which version you are upgrading to/from there are some
> articles on http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ that would probably be of
> interest. HTH
>
> Robert Treat
>
> On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 08:14, james wrote:
> > hi!
> > could somebody please point me the way to the readme file that contains
> > before, during, and after steps to take when upgrading postgresql
> > server?
> >
> > thanks much,
> > james
>
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