On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 23:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:27, Patrick S. Riedel wrote:
> >> I have a client with a v7.0.2-2c1 database stored on media. The
> >> database files were stored raw, not dumped. Their current pgsql version
> >> is 7.1; they do not have v7.0.2-2c1 installed anywhere.
>
> > Lordy, that's a fine mess you've got there.
>
> Yup...
>
> > As far as what version of 7.0.x to use, I don't recognize that release
> > so it could very well be a release candidate version, but might also be
> > a vendor/rpm/debian style version tag.
>
> Any released 7.0.* version should be disk-level-compatible. Given that
> this is a 7.0.2-something and not a 7.0-something I don't think you need
> to worry that it might be a 7.0 prerelease. So as long as you have the
> complete $PGDATA directory tree (not a subset that omits pg_log, for
> example) I think you should be able to compile any 7.0.* release and
> fire it up against that directory tree. Then pg_dump and away you go.
>
> > In any/all cases, always copy the data over, never do anything on the
> > original files.
>
> Check, always keep a pristine copy until you *know* you have a working,
> cross-checked, backed-up database in a later version...
>
> regards, tom lane
Thanks for the replies!
I was able to find ye ol' v7.0.2-2c1 and installed on a test machine.
Dumped db, all is well.
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