Re: migration problem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PJourdan [mailto:info(at)lespetitsplaisirs(dot)com]
> Sent: 11 April 2002 17:24
> To: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] migration problem
>
>
> I know this is not strictly a pgadmin issue, but I don't know
> where else to
> turn.
> At worst, perhaps someone can steer me in the right
> direction. :)) Dave seems terribly knowlegable on pgsql, so I
> thought I'd risk the question:

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but this is not really within my field of
knowledge. I've CC'd this to pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org - you are more
likely to get good help from there.

Regards, Dave.

> I am trying to restore a
> database from a gzipped file: I believe that
> backups were done as complete files (not partial) under
> Postgresql 7.0.3.
> Pg_restore does not recognize the ungzipped file "filename.psql". The
> command, psql -d database -f filename.psql, restores it
> partially, but with
> numerous errors and the database is mostly empty. As I
> understand, this
> command restores the file to an existing database, so I had
> to create one
> with the original filename. But I don't know if the newly
> created database
> must have the exact same permissions, ownership, etc. as the
> original. I am told to install the earlier version of
> Postgresql to restore, but that
> does not work - cannot configure it. Even if that works, how can the
> restored database be migrated to a newer version of
> Postgresql? Does anybody out there know about this kind of
> thing? Thanks for any help. P. Jourdan
>
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