Re: [HACKERS] How to...?

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> Bruce...
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> Did I miss something here? I just looked through the migration
> file for 6.2.1->6.3, and it doesn't seem to say, but how do you dump
> the data from a v6.2.1 database and then reload it to a v6.3 one?
>
> Using v6.2.1's pg_dump/pg_dumpall, I did:
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> pg_dumpall -o > db.dump

Yes.

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> That worked.
>
> Then, I installed v6.3, and using its psql, I did:
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> psql -e < db.dump
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> That failed miserably.

OK.

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> First thing that failed was building the new pg_user...so I cut
> out that and did it manually using createuser...
>
> Then, using what was left, I did:
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> psql -e < db.dump
>
> Again. Failed misearbly, with the following coming from the 'copy
> to <relname> from stdin;' section:
>
> 344984 johnb xgSldZdYEgIWo clio.trends.ca n \N

Check what is in the file around this line. It has existed the COPY for
some reason, and the \N is triggering the \? output.

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