Re: migrate postgresql database from 8.3 to 8.4 version ? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Subject Re: migrate postgresql database from 8.3 to 8.4 version ?
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Msg-id 1301511529.7735.5.camel@lenovo01-laptop03.gunduz.org
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In response to migrate postgresql database from 8.3 to 8.4 version ?  (mike lan <lan.mike88@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 18:50 +0000, mike lan wrote:
> is it possible to migrate  postgresql database from 8.3 to 8.4
> version ? what about 8.3 to 9 ?
> 8.2 to 8.3 ?

Everything is possible, if you have already tested your application. 8.2
to 8.3 is likely to break, because of casting changes. The rul1e of the
thumb is taking the dump using the higher version of pg_dump.

If you want to move from 8.4 to 9.0 (the only combination that you did
not specify, but still...), you can also use pg_upgrade utility.

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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