Re: upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 14:36:57 +0100,
>   csysi <csysi@fe.up.pt> wrote:
> > Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that
> > the databases are incompatible.
> >
> > Can i convert the databases ?
>
> You need to do a dump and reload to go between major releases (e.g.
> from 7.1.x to 7.2.x). If you overlaid your 7.1 binaries you are going
> to have to uninstall 7.4 and reinstall 7.1 and dump the database.
> If you have the 7.1 binaries and the 7.4 binaries available, you
> should use the 7.4 pg_dump(all) to do the dump as it is better
> about handling dependencies and some other things.

Bruno, a ton of work went into making the pg_dump in 7.4 capable of
dumping the older versions back through, I believe 7.0 or 6.5 or so.
Basically, the recommended method now is to just use 7.4's dump of a
running 7.1 database to get the dump.