| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
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| To: | Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | "Hackenberg, Rick" <Rick(dot)Hackenberg(at)primedia(dot)com>, Postgres Newbie <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Migrating database from Unix to Windows |
| Date: | 2006-10-27 03:47:04 |
| Message-ID: | 20061027034704.GF26892@nasby.net |
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:51:36PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> There is a binary installer for windows (at least XP, don't know about
> windows 2000, but would be easy enough to look on the website). The
> dumps of a database are generally cross-platform, I think. I don't know
> that you will need to do anything special. What have you tried?
Dumps are completely platform agnostic. The files in $PGDATA are not.
If you're dual-booting between Windows and Linux, you might be able to
use the same data directory on both, but I wouldn't bet on it. I
certainly wouldn't do anything like that in production.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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