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

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnson <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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> Thanks
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>is restoring the postgres database needed?

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.

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