On 09/09/2011 16:35, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> I've had PG 9.0 installed and working fine however it's Friday and I'm
> running updates on the server & see that 9.1 is available. I know when
> I upgrade, I will now have two instances of PostgreSQL installed under
> /etc/postgresql:
>
> Code:
>
> slave:~# cd /etc/postgresql
> slave:/etc/postgresql# ls -l
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres postgres 4096 Aug 31 13:02 9.0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 9 10:08 9.1
>
> EndCode:
>
> My question is what is the official procedure for removing the old
> version and then running 9.1 only on my system. I don't want to leave
> 9.0 config files or directories so can someone please point me into
> the clean and correct way of properly upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1? I did
> do a pg_dump on my two databases & the default 'postgres' database and
> backed them up so I can import them into the new 9.1 instance.
Removing the older installation depends on whatever package manager your
system uses, if that's how you installed it.
e.g. Debian:
apt-get remove postgresql-9.0
Ray.
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