Re: migrating data from an old postgres version

[Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why can't he just do a
pg_dump -F p his_dbname > his_dbname.sql

Then copy dbname.sql to a jump/thumb drive on the old laptop

copy the data from the jump/thumb drive to the new laptop

create the new db in 9.5

and use pg_restore to load the his_dbname.sql ?

Because it's not the same version, so that will cause some errors.

But i guess we should be able to live with that.

Thanks, i guess i was thinking a bit too rigid.

Cheers,

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Willy-Bas Loos

If you dump with -F p (plain is default) then the version does not matter.

That is the recommended method for upgrading from older versions.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/upgrading.html

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