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From: "Martin Münstermann" <mmuenst@gmx.de>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Migration of PGDATA
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:31:34 +0200
Message-ID: <20100329093134.62810@gmx.net> (raw)

Hi,

is it safe to move the PGDATA directory from one system to another when migrating from one operating system to another?
For example: migrating from Debian to RHEL, or from RHEL4 to RHEL5?
The database is of course shutdown properly, and the PG major versions match.

Or is a dump/restore necessary in these cases?

Thanks,
 Martin

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