Re: Upgrade Problem: 7.4.3 -> 8.1.2

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Doug McNaught wrote:

> Did you tell pg_restore to read from a file?  Otherwise it will try to
> read from your terminal, which probably isn't what you want.

Doug,

   Here's what I have in /var/lib/:

drwxr-x---   3 postgres postgres 104 2006-01-19 12:49 pgsql/
drwx------   3 postgres root      72 2006-01-19 12:47 postgresql/

   In pgsql/ there is a data/ directory which contains:

PG_VERSION  pg_clog/       pg_multixact/  pg_twophase/
base/       pg_hba.conf    pg_subtrans/   pg_xlog/
global/     pg_ident.conf  pg_tblspc/     postgresql.conf

   and PG_VERSION holds '8.1', with all directories and files having a
creation date of 2006-01-19.

   In postgresql/ there is a data/ directory which contains:

PG_VERSION  global/   pg_hba.conf    pg_xlog/
base/       pg_clog/  pg_ident.conf  postgresql.conf

   This PG_VERSION also holds '8.1', but all the directories and files have a
creation date of 2004-12-05.

   So, I assume that /var/lib/postgresql/data holds the 7.4.3 data files and
/var/lib/postgresql/data holds what should be the 8.1.2 data files.

   What specific steps should I take to get the data into the new version so
that SQL-Ledger runs once again? Once I learn this it will be much easier for
me to keep current.

Thanks very much,

Rich

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