Upgrading from 7.4 to 8.1 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Naomi Walker
Subject Upgrading from 7.4 to 8.1
Date
Msg-id 44F622E0.6040009@eldocomp.com
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Responses Re: Upgrading from 7.4 to 8.1  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-admin
We are preparing to upgrade to 8.1 from 7.4 Postrgres.  In this case, it is a Red Hat
Linux server.  Using the 8.1.4 pg_dumpall, pointed at the 7.4 instance, we get the
following errors.

Anyone know why?

Naomi



/applications/pgsql/8.1.4/bin/pg_dumpall   --
-- PostgreSQL database cluster dump
--

\connect postgres

--
-- Roles
--

CREATE ROLE "";
ALTER ROLE "" WITH NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEROLE NOCREATEDB LOGIN;
pg_dumpall: query failed: ERROR:  type "e" does not exist
pg_dumpall: query was: SELECT useconfig[1] FROM pg_shadow WHERE usename = E'\003'


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