Re: Upgrading from 7.4 to 8.1

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Naomi Walker <nwalker(at)eldocomp(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, William Bloom <wbloom(at)eldocomp(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading from 7.4 to 8.1
Date: 2006-08-31 03:26:26
Message-ID: 20060831032626.GM22618@alvh.no-ip.org
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Naomi Walker wrote:
> We are preparing to upgrade to 8.1 from 7.4 Postrgres. In this case, it is a Red Hat
> Linux server. Using the 8.1.4 pg_dumpall, pointed at the 7.4 instance, we get the
> following errors.

What are the exact options? I tried to reproduce it here, using a 8.1
and 8.2 pg_dumpall, and a 7.4 server, and couldn't.

> CREATE ROLE "";
> ALTER ROLE "" WITH NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEROLE NOCREATEDB LOGIN;

This is weird anyway -- do you really have a role named "" (empty
string)?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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