On 07/15/2016 07:22 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: On 07/15/2016 07:07 AM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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. pg_dump is backwards compatible to version 7.0. But i guess we should be able to live with that. Thanks, i guess i was thinking a bit too rigid. Cheers, -- Willy-Bas Loos -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> As Adrian and I have said, pg_dump and pg_dumpall as backwards compatible and the recommended method for porrting data from one version to another. You will NOT get errors if you use plain format.
Remember you can reconstitute a plain format dump from a custom format dump by doing:
pg_restore ... -f plain_sql.txt custom_dump.out Not sure what errors you are talking about?
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