[Freegis-list] PostGIS 0.8.0 Released

[Amaury Jacquot]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> Paolo Cavallini wrote:
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>> That's great!
>> But reading the installation notes, it turns out that I have to 
>> recompile Postgre, which is something I would prefer to avoid (first, 
>> I do not know what to do, second, my Postgre system is crucial for our 
>> work, and I wouldn't like to destabilize it).
>> Any suggestions?

I have personally done it by installing a fresh machine, installed a
nice postgresql install and then transfered the production data over,
over a week end when no one was around. when I got all data properly
transfered and verified, I hacked the DNS :)