Re: Gotcha's in copying data between servers via file copy

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Frank Church <pgsql(at)adontendev(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Gotcha's in copying data between servers via file copy
Date: 2006-02-01 17:22:49
Message-ID: 200602011722.k11HMni28929@candle.pha.pa.us
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Frank Church wrote:
>
> I want to copy the data from one server to another. One is running Postgresql
> 7.4.6 and the other 7.4.7.
>
> Are they any gotchas I should lookout for when making the copy?

None. You can shutdown and do a binary copy of the filesystem, or use
pg_dump or pg_dumpall.

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