Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: newbie guide to upgrade PG

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Posted by Andrei Popov on
What OS platform are you on? On Debian you can simply apt-get upgrade (assuming you have correct sources).  On FreeBSD you can portupgrade databases/postgresql72.  On RedHat/Mandrake you can probably use one of many installer/urpmi/whatever package managers.

If you were to do a source install -- this again is not a problem.  Check INSTALL  and README files packaged with the distribution tarball.  You need to remember just one thing: stop the server before you start the install process.

7.2.3 -> .4 should not be a problem (you don't even need to pg_dump/pg_restore the database, though you may still want to do it if you wish).  Moving to 7.3 is more chalenging -- you will have to dump/restore the db.