Re: PostgreSQL upgrade server A -> server Bx

see pg_migrator project which could help you.

Oleg
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, CAJ CAJ wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Forgive me if this has been discussed before (or if it sounds absurd)
>
> Upgrading large postgres databases (100GB+) takes awfully long time when
> doing dump/restore. I was wondering if this process can be optimized by
> directly dumping to a new version of Pg database directly on another server
> without having to dump to the filesystem and then restore it.
>
> pg_dump on new server might look something like,
> pg_dump <options> -h <old server> -h <new_server> dbname
>
> or can it be used as-is by piping it?
>
> pg_dump <options> -h <old server> dbname | pg_restore
>
> Thanks!
>

Regards,
Oleg
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