Re: Problems After Upgrade

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:41 PM -0700 David Wheeler 
<justatheory@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/29/05, Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> > You know that there were incompatible changes made between 2.2 and 2.3 to
> > the database structure, right?  You can't simply install the new source
> > and start slapd... You have to slapcat your old database with the 2.2
> > binaries, and then slapadd your database with the new binaries...
>
> Yes, that's what I figured out, though it was only a guess based on my
> knowledge of the same sort of thing in PostgreSQL. I found no note in
> the INSTALL or README files about it, which would have been handy.

Please keep replies to the list.

Every release of OpenLDAP I've dealt with (2.0->2.1->2.2->2.3) has required 
a database export/import... There is a reason the version number is a major 
change rather than a minor one. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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