Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> writes:
>> Install beta3, backup, install 8.1 restore.
> That's what I wanted to do but I can't seem to find a beta3 tar.gz
> anywhere, the downloads only go to beta4 :-(
If you don't find a tarball, you could pull the beta3 tag from CVS.
See http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs.html
The tag you want is REL8_1_0BETA3 ... too lazy to check the cvs
man page, but I think you would add "-r REL8_1_0BETA3" to the
normal cvs checkout command.
regards, tom lane