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Re: postgresql packages for potato



Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote:
  >"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
  >
  >> I have prepared packages of postgresql-6.5.3-19 and postgresql-slink-6.3.2
  >> which may be found at <http://www.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/>.
...
  >
  >I'll try these out tonight.  I believe that you indicated that it was
  >apt that was causing difficulties in the upgrade (by removing the old
  >version before installing the new), so I'm going to use apt to install
  >them. I'm constructing a local Packages file, but you might also want
  >to put a Packages file in your postgresql page and make it
  >straightforwardly apt-able.
 
I've done that (see the web page).  I hope I've done it right...

One problem you will need to fix before running postgresql-dump is that you
need to do `chown postgres.postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/dumpall'.  As
installed, it is owned by root, and postgresql-dump tires to create a file
in it.

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