> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 06:07, Dr. Roger Wießner wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how to successfully migrate from 7.1.3.
> to 7.4.7.? I get
> > lots of errors...
>
> Try to have both installed at once (separate dirs, or
> separate machines)
> and dump the 7.1.3 db with the 7.4.7 pg_dump. You might want to do a
> file system backup and an upgrade of 7.1.3 to the last
> version of 7.1.3.
>
> On rare occasions, an intermediate upgrade to something in between may
> help, but I've not used 7.1 in a VERY long time.
>
If for some reason you can't dump with the 7.4.7 pg_dump one of the problems you might be having is with literal
carriagereturns within your data. I was able to use sed to help with getting it into a proper format.
-Bryan
