Re: Upgrading from postgres 8.1 to 8.3

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Scott Mead <scott(dot)lists(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
>> wrote:
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>> >> From: S Arvind <arvindwill(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> >> Subject: [GENERAL] Upgrading from postgres 8.1 to 8.3
>> >> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> >> Date: Thursday, 7 May, 2009, 11:42 AM
>> >> Our 600GB data was currently loaded in postgres 8.1 , we
>> >> want to upgrade
>> >> from postgres 8.1 to 8.3 . Can we able to point the data
>> >> directly or should
>> >> we have to do any porting work for transfering data from
>> >> 8.1 to 8.3.
>> >>
>> >
>> > You need to do a dump and reload. There was a project that did an
>> > in-place upgrade of datafiles (pg_migrator???) but I think it only supports
>> > -> 8.2
>>
>> Bruce is working on that project for 8.4 I believe.
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>   I think that one only supports 8.3 +

Sorry if that came across as a reply to the OP about his issue, it was
more a comment to the replied to post that the upgrade project was
back alive. Didn't mean to cause confusion.