http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/24/some-upgrades-work-and-others-dont Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Mon, 12 May 2008 04:14:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/24/some-upgrades-work-and-others-dont#comment-83701 Paul Tomblin Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:23:48 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/24/some-upgrades-work-and-others-dont#comment-83701 Debian Etch has both postgres versions, so doing an install of 8.1 does NOT remove 7.4. That's the problem - it starts the 8.1 on a different port, so I don't know how to make stuff use the new one instead of the old one. Debian Etch has both postgres versions, so doing an install of 8.1 does NOT remove 7.4. That’s the problem - it starts the 8.1 on a different port, so I don’t know how to make stuff use the new one instead of the old one.

]]> http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/24/some-upgrades-work-and-others-dont#comment-83431 James Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:18:34 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2008/03/24/some-upgrades-work-and-others-dont#comment-83431 pg_dumpall is what you want. Dump your dbs with it, apt-get install postgresql-8.1 (which should remove the 7.4 version), reload them with 'psql -d postgres -f outputfile'. pg_dumpall is what you want. Dump your dbs with it, apt-get install postgresql-8.1 (which should remove the 7.4 version), reload them with ‘psql -d postgres -f outputfile’.

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