Binary backups are not going to work across major releases so just
installing 8.0 with your old cluster won't work.
You'll need to do a pg_dump of your old setup and then restore on your
new cluster.
Hope this helps,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:27:41AM -0400, Mark Mikulec wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> This may be a stupid question but I feel I should ask it anyway just to be
> sure, since I've had problems in the past.
>
> I currently have a defunct Debian 3.0 system running PostgreSQL 7.4.1, in
> which I am going to do an entire blob backup dump of all the databases in
> hopes to restore them on my new, more secure system running the latest
> OpenBSD, and PgSQL 8.0.
>
> So my question is: Are they any issues that I should be aware up restoring
> on a more recent version of PgSQL, and/or issues using a completely
> different operating system altogether? I have some strange pg language
> mishaps going from 7.2 to 7.4 last backup, although frightening, I overcame
> them with some fiddling.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>
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