On 07/15/2016 07:07 AM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@gmail.com
> <mailto:melvin6925@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>
> Why can't he just do a
> pg_dump -F p his_dbname > his_dbname.sql
> Then copy dbname.sql to a jump/thumb drive on the old laptop
> copy the data from the jump/thumb drive to the new laptop
> create the new db in 9.5
> and use pg_restore to load the his_dbname.sql ?
>
>
> Because it's not the same version, so that will cause some errors.
pg_dump is backwards compatible to version 7.0.
> But i guess we should be able to live with that.
> Thanks, i guess i was thinking a bit too rigid.
>
> Cheers,
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> Willy-Bas Loos
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