Re: Restore/dump from "/usr/local/pgsql/data" directory - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alan Hodgson
Subject Re: Restore/dump from "/usr/local/pgsql/data" directory
Date
Msg-id 201009231437.29440.ahodgson@simkin.ca
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In response to Restore/dump from "/usr/local/pgsql/data" directory  (kongsgar@stud.ntnu.no)
List pgsql-general
On September 23, 2010 01:49:50 pm kongsgar@stud.ntnu.no wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a copy of "/usr/local/pgsql/data" from old server. Is it
> possible to do a dump of the sql databases in this directory, so that
> I can easily migrate them to my current system?
>

You should be able to launch a postmaster against it to do so, yes. It will
need to be the same (major) version as the old server was running.

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