Thomas Kellerer wrote: > I'm getting a new notebook and want to confirm that my idea > on how to move my Postgres installation will work This is a > development/test installation and not a production system, so > it doesn't need to be 100% fail safe. > > Both systems are Windows XP 32bit. > > My plan was to install the same PG release (8.3) on the new > computer, skip the initdb task during installation, but let > the installer create the necessary service pointing to an > empty data directory. Using the same OS user account. > > Once the installation is finished, copy all files from the > old datadir (after shutting down that postmaster) to the new > datadir as the PG Windows user, so that access right are > setup correctly. > > As both machines have the same OS and architecture my > assumption is that this should work. > Or am I mistaken? Yes, that should work. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
