okay guys I will get 8.2.13, so would running the install.pl would be different.
I will try and see if I can compile and run as mentioned from the docs. But would there be any script after install.pl to run the postmaster, initDB Thanks. On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Kushal Vaghani<kushalvagh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hey Craig > > > > I am doing a research project on a particular branch of postgreSQL and we > > have already had some code written on top of 8.2.4 base release few years > > back. I am doing some extensions to it. So thats the reason of not using > the > > latest releases. There would be lot of extra patching etc. > > No, there wouldn't. Going from 8.2.4 to 8.2.latest should be > painless, or nearly so. It's when the first two numbers change that > behaviour changes. Generally speaking a point release is just > security patches and bug fixes. On some very rare occasions there is > some behavioural change, but that's very rare and prominantly listed > in the release notes. >
