At 07:27 AM 5/12/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>I just noticed that one of my systems was still running 1.5.0 RC7: somehow
>when I upgraded to the 1.5.0 release, I missed this machine. Can I
>upgrade to 1.5.0 or 1.5.1 by simply installing the new version, or do I
>have to backup with 1.5.0 RC7 then restore with the new version? Normally
>I'd just do the backup and restore to be safe, but the database on this
>machine is 79 GB, and a backup/restore cycle will take a very long time!

Yes, that should be just fine. As an extra precaution, though, I'd want to
shut down the server and do a file-copy to a CD-ROM, just for the
unpredicted .000000001% case. :-)

./hb