Re: migrating data from an old postgres version

On 07/15/2016 07:07 AM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@gmail.com
> <mailto:melvin6925@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Why can't he just do a
>     pg_dump -F p his_dbname > his_dbname.sql
>     Then copy dbname.sql to a jump/thumb drive on the old laptop
>     copy the data from the jump/thumb drive to the new laptop
>     create the new db in 9.5
>     and use pg_restore to load the his_dbname.sql ?
>
>
> Because it's not the same version, so that will cause some errors.

pg_dump is backwards compatible to version 7.0.

> But i guess we should be able to live with that.
> Thanks, i guess i was thinking a bit too rigid.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Willy-Bas Loos


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