fel <fellsin@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a small server running RHEL 5.2 32bit / Postgresql 8.3.3.
> I would like to upgrade Postgres to 9.0 on a new server running
> RHEL 5.5 but 64bit.
>
> What would be the best solution :
> - Dump data from 32bit to 64bit then upgrade to v9.0 (using
> pg_upgrade).
> - Upgrade to v9.0 then dump from 32 to 64bit.
> - Dump from 8.3-32bit to 9.0-64bit.
I would use pg_dump executing on the new system (pointing to the old
database) and pipe the output directly into psql to populate the new
database.
-Kevin