Re: Version upgrade: is restoring the postgres database needed?

On 03/01/2018 08:46 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net
> <mailto:ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>> wrote:
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> Or do we just apply the globals.sql created by "pg_dumpall
> --globals-only"?
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> (We're upgrading by restoring all databases on a new server, that,
> naturally, has it's own new postgres, template0 and template1 databases.)
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> >is restoring the postgres database needed?
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> That would depend on how you did the dump. If you did a_complete
> pg_dumpall (did not use -g or any other limiting flags), then all roles
> and databases are contained
> in the output file created. NOTE: restoring from the dumped file will
> require rebuilding all indexes, because indexes are not dumped.

No, I do:

$ pg_dump -Fc PROD > PROD.pgdump
$ pg_dump --globals-only postgres > globals.sql
$ pg_dump -Fc postgres > postgres.pgdump

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