"A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. In addition, it's considered best practice to run (in this case) the 7.4 server against the old database, and use the 8.X pg_dump to dump it out for loading into the 8.X server. -Doug
