On 17/08/2007 13:32, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> Was the previous installation of Postgres also 8.2? If not - if it was
> an earlier version - I'd put the old version back, point it at the data
> directory, then use pg_dump to export the data if you want to upgrade at
> that point.
I meant to add that you can get Win32 versions back as far as 8.0 on the
PostgreSQL home page (http://www.postgresql.org/) - top right of the
page - click on the "Binary" link beside the version number.
To check the version number of your data files, look in the PG_VERSION file.
Ray.
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