Re: Upgrading 7.2.4 to 7.4.1

You might get better results using 7.4's pg_dump against the 7.2 database...
worth a try anyway.

Robert Treat

On Monday 16 February 2004 07:59, Jarmo Järvenpää wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've got an old 7.2.4 DB which I hoped to upgrade to 7.4.1.
> The old syntax used for creating tables had lines like
> ..
> id integer DEFAULT '',
>
> which translates to this error:
>
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: invalid
> input syntax for integer: ""
>
> I found out that integer with '' as default is not acceptable after 7.3.
> Also, some complaints were given with the data, particulary numerous
> "\N" lines when restoring (this can be worked out by using -d switch
> when dumping).
>
> Also, schemas are not going to be created (some 7.3 documents gave this
> up).
>
> Thus, must I update every DB creation script by hand and try to restore
> only the data?
>
>
> Regards,
> Jarmo
>
>
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