am 27.01.2006, um 14:21:31 +0000 mailte Matthew Henderson folgendes: > Okay, so if I have 7.4 installed and I have the old > harddisk mount under /mnt/hda can I do something > like > > pg_dump /mnt/hda/path_to_old_database > dump.txt No, this is imposible IMHO. You need a PG-Server with this version (7.4), to read the data. pg_dump is only a client for the DB, it can't read the files. HTH, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer (Kontakt: siehe Header) Heynitz: 035242/47215, D1: 0160/7141639 GnuPG-ID 0x3FFF606C http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net === Schollglas Unternehmensgruppe ===