Re: Upgrading old server

On 9/25/19 9:29 AM, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Ekaterina Amez 2019-09-25 <8818b028-bd2d-412e-d4e3-e29c49ffee17@zunibal.com>
>> We've decided to upgrade our PostgreSQL production servers. First task is
>> remove an old v7.14 version. It was supposed to be upgraded to a v8.4
>> server. The server was installed, several databases where released here but
>> v7.4 was never migrated. The plan is pg_dump this database and psql it to
>> existing 8.4 server. After this, we'll pg_upgrade.
> If you doing dump-restore anyway, why not restore into v11 rightaway?

Since it's recommend to run the newer pg_dump on the older database, I've 
got to wonder if v11 pg_dump can read the v7.4 on-disk structures.

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