Re: [Gnumed-devel] PostgreSQL 8.4 in the new Debian Squeeze

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:32:33PM -0300, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:

> > > to make things simple, just do a "aptitude purge postgresql-8.4 &&
> > aptitude
> > > install postgresql-8.3" no restore of the DB is necessary
> >
> > That's right because the 8.3 data files are still there
> > totally undisturbed. Debian makes sure as hell that no data
> > gets lost.
> 
> 
> with the above "aptitude purge ... aptitude install" the next time I ran
> aptitude upgrade the postgresql did not install the 8.4 version

Yep, that's because you now manually installed the 8.3
version of PG rather than the version-less "default"
meta-package which upgrades versions as soon as available -
as you noticed.

>, AND the 8.3
> version was reconfigured to the old port automatically.

The Debian PG maintenance tools are pretty smart.

Karsten
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