On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:18 -0600, Kelly Jones wrote: > An old version of the database format was found. > You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL. > See /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.3.8/README.rpm-dist for more > information. > > Unfortunately, I upgraded due to a hardware failure, and can't > dump/undump, since I don't have the old PostgreSQL server anymore. > > Can I upgrade the data format w/o installing Postgres 7.2 (my > "data/base/1/PG_VERSION" file says "7.2")? You need to install 7.2 from sources, and start the server, and take the dump using 8.3's pg_dump (and I'm not sure 8.3's pg_dump supports dumping 7.2 server)... Also, however, I bet 7.2 cannot be compiled on Fedora 11. The oldest PG version that I could build on Fedora 11 was 8.0, IIRC. Apart from these, dump/restore from 7.2 to 8.3 will probably not work. So you should first install the old OS version, at least to take a dump. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE Command Prompt - http://www.CommandPrompt.com devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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