Re: [PERFORM] Postgres version change - pg_dump

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: sarlav kumar <sarlavk(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, pgsqlnovice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsqlperform <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres version change - pg_dump
Date: 2004-12-21 05:58:14
Message-ID: 41C7BB76.9090206@familyhealth.com.au
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Hi Sarlav,

> From what I understand, I need to execute the pg_dump command from the
> new server( so that it will use the 7.4.6 version), but connect to the
> old DB. Am I right?

Basically.

The truth is Sarlav, that any pg_dump version before the new 8.0 version
is likely to have errors restoring. You should restore the dump like this:

psql -f dump.sql database

And then when you get errors, you will see the line number of the error.
Then you can edit the dump to fix it.

Chris

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