Re: migrating data from an old postgres version

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> 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
>

If you dump with -F p (plain is default) then the version does not matter.
That is the recommended method for upgrading from older versions.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/upgrading.html

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