Re: transitioning postgres oid

Reinstall the old version of postgres to get a dump out of it.

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Robert Abbate wrote:

> Actually, if I was able to get the old database up, I wouldn't needed to
> re-install postgres again. That is my problem. I could not get the old
> databases up and running at all. I had to do a fresh installation. So now
> the old databases are just sitting there. Any ideas?
>
>
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:21:37AM -0500, Robert Abbate wrote:
> > > This doesn't work because the old databases are not accessible with the
> new
> > > Postgres installation. I get the following error:
> > >
> > >
> > > Connection to database '26955' failed.
> > > FATAL 1: Database "26955" does not exist in the system catalog.
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how do you update the system catalog to include an old
> > > Postges installation OID? I have old databases just sitting there and I
> > > can't seem to include them in the new installation. I cannot include
> them in
> > > the new installation to run pg_dump.
> >
> > You do pg_dump with the old backend up, then restore to the new one.
> > You can automate this by starting (say) the new backend on a different
> > port:
> >
> > pg_dump -c database_name | psql -p new_port database_name
> >
> >
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