Re: upgrading from 9.3-beta1 to 9.3-beta2 requires dump & reload?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Lonni J Friedman escribi�:
>> I'm using the RPMs from yum.postgresql.org on RHEL6.  Is this
>> expected, intentional behavior?  Do I really need to dump & reload to
>> upgrade between beta releases of 9.3, or is there some more efficient
>> way?

> We try to avoid forcing initdb between beta versions, but it's not
> guaranteed.  You should be able to use pg_upgrade, also.

Unfortunately, the RPMs probably won't be very helpful for using
pg_upgrade, since there's no convenient way to get beta1 and beta2
postmaster executables installed at the same time (unless Devrim
foresaw this case and packaged things differently than I did for
Red Hat ;-)).

            regards, tom lane