Re: Restore/dump from "/usr/local/pgsql/data" directory

From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restore/dump from "/usr/local/pgsql/data" directory
Date: 2010-09-23 21:37:29
Message-ID: 201009231437.29440.ahodgson@simkin.ca
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On September 23, 2010 01:49:50 pm kongsgar(at)stud(dot)ntnu(dot)no wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a copy of "/usr/local/pgsql/data" from old server. Is it
> possible to do a dump of the sql databases in this directory, so that
> I can easily migrate them to my current system?
>

You should be able to launch a postmaster against it to do so, yes. It will
need to be the same (major) version as the old server was running.

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