On Tuesday 04 April 2006 07:22, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > do these pkgs maintain upgrade path from 2.7.x series installs via rpm > > I don't know. > I'm not sure I like the idea of an rpm > install/upgrade operating directly on a (production) database. For what it's worth, the PostgreSQL 8.1 RPMs will not upgrade a previous RPM based install, either. You would have found the way previous PostgreSQL RPMs attempted to do upgrades less than warm and fuzzy, too. I know I didn't find them to be warm and fuzzy (and I wrote the procedure!). -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu