Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jason Tan Boon Teck wrote: >> I need to move some databases written in Psql v8.4 to the stable >> production server running v8.3. I tried pg_dump and pg_restore as well >> as PgAdmin3. I am unable to do so due to the backward >> incompatibility. Is there anyway to do this? > You can try connecting a 8.3 client to the 8.4 server, then running > pg_dump from that 8.3 client. That's a common approach for > dump/restore when moving forward a version, and it may resolve your > issue when moving backward one too. The 8.3 client shouldn't dump > anything the 8.3 server doesn't know how to restore. That's very likely to fail, and worse to do so silently, because 8.3 pg_dump doesn't know what's different about 8.4 system catalogs. I think your only real recourse in this situation is to do a plain dump from the 8.4 server (with 8.4 pg_dump) and then manually edit the dump script to remove any 8.4-only syntax. If your application isn't actually using any 8.4-only features this should be a pretty trivial matter. If it is, then of course you have some work to do. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
