Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 14:11 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:41:12 Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Any suggestions for improvement? > > As far as "running two or more versions of the PGSQL server in the same > machine", I don't see solutions really different from the current

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Vincenzo Romano
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 13:41:12 Oliver Elphick wrote: > Any suggestions for improvement? As far as "running two or more versions of the PGSQL server in the same machine", I don't see solutions really different from the current one. So I would not waste time and resources in designing a (not rea

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:51 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Hannes Dorbath wrote: > > Running 2 PG instances is a trivial thing to do. It requires a quick > > look at the PostgreSQL documentation to find out that: > > > But instead people spend their time on going out and ask how to use some > >

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:05:00AM +0200, Hannes Dorbath wrote: > Isn't it funny that stupid wrapper scripts create confusion instead of > making things easier for users. > > Running 2 PG instances is a trivial thing to do. It requires a quick > look at the PostgreSQL documentation to find out t

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Vincenzo Romano
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 11:05:00 Hannes Dorbath wrote: > Running 2 PG instances is a trivial thing to do. It requires a quick > look at the PostgreSQL documentation to find out that: > > - The port is defined in postgresql.conf > - pg_ctl -D defines what cluster to work on > - The switch for the

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Huxton
Hannes Dorbath wrote: Running 2 PG instances is a trivial thing to do. It requires a quick look at the PostgreSQL documentation to find out that: But instead people spend their time on going out and ask how to use some poor wrappers, their distribution provides. Probably this has costed them

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Hannes Dorbath
On 06.06.2007 09:00, Vincenzo Romano wrote: (Kubuntu) that provides a nice pg_wrapper The point is thay I have no clue on ow to choose which instance attach to. Isn't it funny that stupid wrapper scripts create confusion instead of making things easier for users. Running 2 PG instances i

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-06 Thread Vincenzo Romano
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 23:55:20 Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 23:40 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > > Hi all. > > I need to run both 8.1 and 8.2 at the same time in order to check > > everything in 8.2 *before* shutting 8.1 down. > > I need to run both as I only have one machine av

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 23:40 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > Hi all. > I need to run both 8.1 and 8.2 at the same time in order to check > everything in 8.2 *before* shutting 8.1 down. > I need to run both as I only have one machine available. > I'm using a debian derivateive (Kubuntu) that provides

Re: [GENERAL] Running v8.1 amd v8.2 at the same time for a transition

2007-06-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
Vincenzo Romano wrote: Hi all. I need to run both 8.1 and 8.2 at the same time in order to check everything in 8.2 *before* shutting 8.1 down. I need to run both as I only have one machine available. I'm using a debian derivateive (Kubuntu) that provides a nice pg_wrapper mechanism to direct conn