Re: Update 6.5 database files to 7.0

From: bangh <banghe(at)baileylink(dot)net>
To: Adam Wyard <ism(at)candela(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Update 6.5 database files to 7.0
Date: 2002-03-13 20:40:05
Message-ID: 3C8FB925.834AFD24@baileylink.net
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send your raw data files to a nice guy who has v6.5 running and makes the dump
file for you.

Adam Wyard wrote:

> I have an old server which crashed last week, which had a few Postgresql
> database running on v6.5. The operating system would not load, but I managed
> to extract the files from the drive by placing it as a secondary drive on
> another machine.
>
> The rough and ready solution is to move the databases to our newer server,
> which is running v7.0, but I now have the problem that there is apparently
> no way to upgrade the database files to the new version (without having a
> server running 6.5 to dump them).
>
> Is there a way to convert the databases from the files?
>
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