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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Anony Mous <fyngyrz@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: restore failure
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:47:05 -0500
Message-ID: <5008.1226944025@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1561aee60811170655h55a5a777kf6862d2a262ad3f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1561aee60811170655h55a5a777kf6862d2a262ad3f@mail.gmail.com>

"Anony Mous" <fyngyrz@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a moderate size database under RH9 / pgsql 7.3 (I think... that's the
> PG_VERSION in the postgres user data directory.) Under 100 mb for the whole
> thing.

> I'm trying to move the DB to postgresql 8.3 under the current ubuntu in a
> 4-core, 4gb machine.

Try using the 8.3 pg_dump (or more likely pg_dumpall) to dump from the
7.3 server.  (Just point it at that server over the net, you don't need
to install it on the old machine.)

			regards, tom lane



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