PGSQL PERFORMANCE 44 RE POSTGRES VERSION CHANGE PG DUMP
From: chriskl@no-spam (Christopher Kings-Lynne)
Subject: Re: Postgres version change - pg_dump
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:58:14 +0800


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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