Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:18 -0600, Kelly Jones wrote: >> 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)... Yes, it does. I routinely test pg_dump back to 7.0. There are some issues around embedded newlines in the data with very old servers, but that's a server-side problem and using an older pg_dump won't make it better. (If you have newlines in your text data, try using pg_dump --inserts.) > 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. I think the problems you had were probably with contrib stuff. Building the core server without any extras will probably work (perhaps with a lot of warnings, but ignore those). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
