On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:48:41AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > while I'm glad to learn more than I knew before how to go about > making backups and upgrading the PostgreSQL installation, having folks > telling me all I did incorrectly is not as helpful to me as guidance on > getting the cluster correctly transferred from the 8.1.4 version to the > 8.3.3 version. My readings and research obviously did not sufficiently > educate me on the proper process. What I'd try doing is this: find a 8.1 version of PG (8.1.4 or later) and run this against the data you saved off, once this is running you can then run 8.3's version of pg_dump against it, then you can restore this dump into the new version of PG. Sam