"Patrick Brennan" <patrick.brennan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hopefully a simple question. I have a copy of the data from an old > PostgreSQL installation (it's not a dump, it's a copy of the PGDATA > directory). I have two questions, is there a simple way for me to > determine the version of PostgreSQL that this data belongs to? Read the PG_VERSION file that appears at the top level. > Secondly, is there anyway to import this data into PostgreSQL 8.0 > without need to run a 7.x postmaster? No. You need to run a matching 7.x postmaster and do pg_dumpall. regards, tom lane
