Re: Move databases from Pg 7.2.1 to 8.3.x

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:58 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>> I can't avoid it any longer and have to move an old RT2 installation to
>> a new machine.  (I'll upgrade to RT3 on that machine.)
>>
>> The plan calls for a pg_dump using my workstation using CREATE the
>> database and INSERTS (-C -D) .  Then use psql to run the script created
>> above to build the database on the new system.
>>
>> I have the time to fiddle about but would appreciate any suggestions to
>> make it run smooth(er).
>
> O.k. :) Don't do it that way.
>
> You want to install the new version of PostgreSQL and use the version of
> pg_dump that comes with that machine.

Thanks Josh.

See my later postings.  Quickly I'm using pg_dump from Pg 8.3.4 and I'm
not doing the whole cluster, just selected databases.

> Secondly there is no reasons to do -D (which is actually -d btw). Just
> do a stock pg_dumpall.
>
> Lastly on the new machine you will likely need to create your cluster
> with --no-locale otherwise I can pretty much guarantee the restore won't
> work from that far back. Alternatively you can try to cleanse the data
> with something like iconv.

I'll know pretty soon.  :-)


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Rod
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