> All,
>
> I am trying to upgrade our current version of postgres 8.2.3 to 8.3.1.
> I have installed 8.3.1 on the same machine as our 8.2.3 install and am
> now trying to add the new install as a slave. When I run the slonik
> commands, I get an error back saying that $libdir/xxid.so was not
> found.
>
> I did check in the 8.2.3 and 8.3.1 $libdir-s and while there is a
> xxid.so file in the 8.2.3 $libdir, there isn't one in the 8.3.1; the
> config options for both installs were kept the same.
>
> I tried a google search already but could not find a work around for
> the issue. http://linuxfinances.info/info/faq.html#AEN47452 recommends
> only having one install of postgres, but that's not possible during an
> upgrade.

Yeah, the suggestion is to have as few builds around as you can, to
minimize confusion.

Obviously if you need to run 8.2 and 8.3, that's going to require two
PostgreSQL builds :-).

> Would just copying the lib file from one install to another work? I
> assume that's likely to break things.

Quite so, there are differences between APIs with 8.2 and 8.3.

What you should do is to do a separate Slony-I build against 8.3, from
"configure" to "make install."

That will ensure consistency within the Slony-I build.