Re: Fedora 16 note...

On 11/10/2011 11:10 PM, Jerry Levan wrote:
> I upgraded to Fedora 16 yesterday…
>
> I thought I might have lost my 12 year old db when the system came up
> and I noticed the 9.1 had overwrote the old binaries.

... of course, you keep regular backups so you weren't too worried
anyway.... right?

> Then I read about pg_upgrade stuff and it worked!

Good to hear. I tend to dump and reload between versions as I have
fairly small data, but it's good to hear people getting successful use
out of pg_upgrade.

> I found that postgresql would not start at boot time until
> I did:
>
> systemctl enable postgresql.service

That's Fedora policy: don't start a service unless the user asks for it
to be started.

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Craig Ringer