| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | patrick(dot)brennan(at)bsdfirst(dot)com |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrade Data from 7.x.x to 8.x.x |
| Date: | 2005-06-06 02:43:41 |
| Message-ID: | 6063.1118025821@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Patrick Brennan" <patrick(dot)brennan(at)bsdfirst(dot)com> writes:
> Hopefully a simple question. I have a copy of the data from an old
> PostgreSQL installation (it's not a dump, it's a copy of the PGDATA
> directory). I have two questions, is there a simple way for me to
> determine the version of PostgreSQL that this data belongs to?
Read the PG_VERSION file that appears at the top level.
> Secondly, is there anyway to import this data into PostgreSQL 8.0
> without need to run a 7.x postmaster?
No. You need to run a matching 7.x postmaster and do pg_dumpall.
regards, tom lane
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