Re: [HACKERS] How to...?

>
>
> Bruce...
>
>     Did I miss something here?  I just looked through the migration
> file for 6.2.1->6.3, and it doesn't seem to say, but how do you dump
> the data from a v6.2.1 database and then reload it to a v6.3 one?
>
>     Using v6.2.1's pg_dump/pg_dumpall, I did:
>
> pg_dumpall -o > db.dump

Yes.

>
>     That worked.
>
>     Then, I installed v6.3, and using its psql, I did:
>
> psql -e < db.dump
>
>     That failed miserably.

OK.

>
>     First thing that failed was building the new pg_user...so I cut
> out that and did it manually using createuser...
>
>     Then, using what was left, I did:
>
> psql -e < db.dump
>
>     Again.  Failed misearbly, with the following coming from the 'copy
> to <relname> from stdin;' section:
>
> 344984  johnb   xgSldZdYEgIWo           clio.trends.ca  n       \N

Check what is in the file around this line.  It has existed the COPY for
some reason, and the \N is triggering the \? output.


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