Re: Accessing an old database from a new OS installation.

Okay, so if I have 7.4 installed and I have the old
harddisk mount under /mnt/hda can I do something
like

  pg_dump /mnt/hda/path_to_old_database > dump.txt

???




On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:47:21PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 11:30 schrieb Matthew Henderson:
> > How should I go about doing this? Are there any problems
> > I should be aware of in moving from version 7.4 to 8.1?
>
> For one thing you won't be able to read the 7.4 database using 8.1 binaries,
> so you need to get 7.4 installed first in order to make a dump.  If there are
> no packages available you will have to compile it by hand.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/