On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Carol Walter wrote:
>>
>> I just did an upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2.3. We'll go up to 8.3.3 very soon,
>> but for reasons I won't go into, this intermediate step was necessary. My
>> problem is, now that the upgrade is done, how can I clean up the database
>> from the old version. I leave the original database up as long as I can
>> when I do an upgrade just in case I need to revert to it. Now I have the
>> databases from two versions on my server and I need to get rid of the old
>> one. Can I just remove the old files from the data directories? With other
>> systems, I've had trouble removing database files because upgrades use
>> certain files from old versions. I don't want to break my new database.
>> I'm on Solaris 10.
>
>
> Not only does the new version not use files from the old, it doesn't even
> know it exists. You can just nuke all the 8.1 stuff.
If you're paranoid, then you can also do:
sudo chmod 000 /old/data/dir
and see if anything breaks.