From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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To: | Jarmo Järvenpää <Jarmo(dot)Jarvenpaa(at)softers(dot)net>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Upgrading 7.2.4 to 7.4.1 |
Date: | 2004-02-22 02:09:39 |
Message-ID: | 200402212109.39694.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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You might get better results using 7.4's pg_dump against the 7.2 database...
worth a try anyway.
Robert Treat
On Monday 16 February 2004 07:59, Jarmo Järvenpää wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've got an old 7.2.4 DB which I hoped to upgrade to 7.4.1.
> The old syntax used for creating tables had lines like
> ..
> id integer DEFAULT '',
>
> which translates to this error:
>
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: invalid
> input syntax for integer: ""
>
> I found out that integer with '' as default is not acceptable after 7.3.
> Also, some complaints were given with the data, particulary numerous
> "\N" lines when restoring (this can be worked out by using -d switch
> when dumping).
>
> Also, schemas are not going to be created (some 7.3 documents gave this
> up).
>
> Thus, must I update every DB creation script by hand and try to restore
> only the data?
>
>
> Regards,
> Jarmo
>
>
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