Re: Restore Problem

At 09:40 AM 10/20/2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>"Monica Robustelli" <monica_robustelli(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> > If I transfer the backup file to another Linux machine, Red Hat 9,
> Postgres
> > 7.3, I'v some problem during the database restoring. The error is:
>
> > ERROR: copy: line 13, CopyReadAttribute: end of record marker corrupted
>
>A likely bet is that you transferred the dump file in a manner that
>converted Unix newlines (\n) to Windows newlines (\r\n). COPY does not
>tolerate that (in releases before 7.4 anyway).

What then is the proper method of upgrading from and old release? I was
planning on :

pg_dumpall > alldata.sql
psql -f alldata.sql template1 postgres >&err.out&

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