| From: | Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Haddock <haddock(dot)stephenm(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql backward compatibility |
| Date: | 2020-11-18 16:09:21 |
| Message-ID: | 0A877C72-DDE2-4F4D-BBF5-8711CB5E28F5@thebuild.com |
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> On Nov 18, 2020, at 08:05, Stephen Haddock <haddock(dot)stephenm(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> When upgrading an older version of postgres, version 8.4 for example, to a newer version such as 9.6, does the data have to be migrated immediately?
Yes. You cannot run binaries from a newer major version of PostgreSQL on a cluster that was initialized with an older major version. You'll need to do a pg_dump/pg_restore, or use pg_upgrade to create a new cluster.
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