Re: database transfer

On Thursday 25 January 2001 03:46, Ronnie Esguerra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will be moving my postgres database from one server to a new server. What
> files do I need to move or how is it done?
>
> Ronnie

pg_dumpall the whole database to a file (pg_dumpall > dumpfile). Assuming you
use the PostgreSQL source code, configure and make postgres on the new
machine and do the regress tests (src/test/regress).  If it's good, make
install, make postgres superuser unix account, then initdb as user postgres.
Finally, restore your dumpfile with psql -e template1 < dumpfile (the way man
pg_dumpall says to do it).  I wouldn't try just copying files from one box to
another (except your dumpfile).

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