Okay, so if I have 7.4 installed and I have the old harddisk mount under /mnt/hda can I do something like
pg_dump /mnt/hda/path_to_old_database > dump.txt ??? On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:47:21PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 11:30 schrieb Matthew Henderson: > > How should I go about doing this? Are there any problems > > I should be aware of in moving from version 7.4 to 8.1? > > For one thing you won't be able to read the 7.4 database using 8.1 binaries, > so you need to get 7.4 installed first in order to make a dump. If there are > no packages available you will have to compile it by hand. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut > http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
