On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
He claims it didn't work, but there's no details about what went wrong. He also seems entirely misinformed on the difference between "portable" and "PG-specific" pg_dump output.
I just left a note on this and related subjects on the blog. If you search for "postgresql upgrade 8.3" on Google that comes back as hit #5 already and it would be good to shut down some of the misunderstandings there ("PostgreSQL doesn't recreate the databases during the restore process"?) before they get any more publicity.
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