Re: Move PG installation to a new computer

Albe Laurenz, 24.03.2009 10:34:
> Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>> I'm getting a new notebook and want to confirm that my idea
>> on how to move my Postgres installation will work This is a
>> development/test installation and not a production system, so
>> it doesn't need to be 100% fail safe.
>>
>> Both systems are Windows XP 32bit.
>>
>> My plan was to install the same PG release (8.3) on the new
>> computer, skip the initdb task during installation, but let
>> the installer create the necessary service pointing to an
>> empty data directory. Using the same OS user account.
>>
>> Once the installation is finished, copy all files from the
>> old datadir (after shutting down that postmaster) to the new
>> datadir as the PG Windows user, so that access right are
>> setup correctly.
>>
>> As both machines have the same OS and architecture my
>> assumption is that this should work.
>> Or am I mistaken?
>
> Yes, that should work.

Great, thanks for the answer.

Thomas