On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Lonni J Friedman escribió:
>>> 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 ;-)).
Sounds like I'm out of luck. Thanks anyway.