Re: DB upgrade

Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007 schrieb Andrew Kelly:
> Unless my installation is unique in some way of which I'm yet unaware,

Yes, it's a Debian package.

> pg_dump seems to be just a handful of lines in a perl script. In fact,
> pg_dump, pg_restore and pg_dumpall are all simlinks to the same simple
> perl script, the contents of which seem to be identical in both my
> 'older' and 'newer' versions of PG. Does this mean I can trust any old
> dump from my older server to seamlessly plug into my newer version? Or
> does thin mean there are other 'gizmos' than pg_dump which I need to
> copy from new machine to old machine to perform the dump?

The advice remains:  Install the newest client package and use that pg_dump.

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Peter Eisentraut
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