Re: migrating data from an old postgres version

From: Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: migrating data from an old postgres version
Date: 2016-07-15 14:07:54
Message-ID: CAHnozTj=4-YF8g3LJFcS4PBkXsJu=idruaM8BRbsiF7FsAs9Jg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> Why can't he just do a
> pg_dump -F p his_dbname > his_dbname.sql
> Then copy dbname.sql to a jump/thumb drive on the old laptop
> copy the data from the jump/thumb drive to the new laptop
> create the new db in 9.5
> and use pg_restore to load the his_dbname.sql ?
>

Because it's not the same version, so that will cause some errors.
But i guess we should be able to live with that.
Thanks, i guess i was thinking a bit too rigid.

Cheers,
--
Willy-Bas Loos

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