Re: Salvage older PostgreSQL data disk - help?

The world rejoiced as Conrad <bogus_address(at)nospam(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:43:24 +0000, Conrad wrote:
>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> In short:
>>
>> Using a new FreeBSD (4.9) PostgreSQL (7.3) server, can I
>> rescue PostgreSQL data from a hard drive pulled from an
>> older (motherboard just died) FreeBSD (4.??) PostgreSQL (7.??)
>> server? If so, how?
>>
>> The long version:
> [drop table rest_of_message]
>
> Many thanks, all - 7.2.1 (the version that was on the old
> machine building as we speak. Do I need to do the full
> initbd, or can I just slide the old data/ tree in place?

The first thing to try certainly is to "slide the old data tree into
place." I'd suggest keeping a scratch copy, of course...

It ought to "just work." Indeed, it ought to "just work" if you put
7.2.4 software in place.
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