Richmond Dyes wrote:
> That's the problem. There are no errors persay. That's why I am
> looking for basic instructions on how to get that upgrade done with
> rpm's from someone who has done it.
Assuming you have downloaded the rpm's. Don't know if CentOS has a "yum"
or "apt" type program that will handle that for you.
What version of postgresql are you upgrading from? If it's from 8.1.X to
8.1.Y then this will work:
Take a database dump as a backup.
Stop postgresql:
/etc/init.d/postgresql stop
update the rpms:
rpm -Fvh postgresql-*
Start postgresql:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
If you are doing from 8.0.X to 8.1.Y then you need to:
Take a database dump as a backup.
Copy or zip your existing files (/var/lib/pgsql/data) somewhere safe.
Stop postgresql:
/etc/init.d/postgresql stop
update the rpms:
rpm -Fvh postgresql-*
rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data or where-ever your postgresql data files are.
Of course your backup is somewhere else!
Start postgresql:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
(that should handle doing an 'initdb')
import your backup:
su - postgres
psql < /path/to/your/database.dump.file
If you have made any changes to the postgresql.conf file or pg_hba.conf
file then you'll need to copy those back from your backup as well.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I have missed any steps.
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