Re: migrating data from an old postgres version

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 07/15/2016 07:07 AM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com
>> <mailto: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.
>>
>
> pg_dump is backwards compatible to version 7.0.
>
>
> 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
>>
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>

As Adrian and I have said, pg_dump and pg_dumpall as backwards compatible
and the recommended method for porrting data from one version
to another. You will NOT get errors if you use plain format.

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