Re: Accessing an old database from a new OS installation.

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Accessing an old database from a new OS installation.
Date: 2006-01-27 14:52:46
Message-ID: 20060127145246.GB9410@webserv.wug-glas.de
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am 27.01.2006, um 14:21:31 +0000 mailte Matthew Henderson folgendes:
> 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

No, this is imposible IMHO. You need a PG-Server with this version
(7.4), to read the data. pg_dump is only a client for the DB, it can't
read the files.

HTH, Andreas
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