Re: Move PG installation to a new computer

Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> I'm getting a new notebook and want to confirm that my idea
> on how to move my Postgres installation will work This is a
> development/test installation and not a production system, so
> it doesn't need to be 100% fail safe.
>
> Both systems are Windows XP 32bit.
>
> My plan was to install the same PG release (8.3) on the new
> computer, skip the initdb task during installation, but let
> the installer create the necessary service pointing to an
> empty data directory. Using the same OS user account.
>
> Once the installation is finished, copy all files from the
> old datadir (after shutting down that postmaster) to the new
> datadir as the PG Windows user, so that access right are
> setup correctly.
>
> As both machines have the same OS and architecture my
> assumption is that this should work.
> Or am I mistaken?

Yes, that should work.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe