On 18/06/2008 15:16, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I do not see an option on the man page for pg_dumpall that directs it to
> the data of a different version on a different filesystem. I would greatly
> appreciate learning the correct syntax that will allow me to use the
> pg_dumpall from 8.3.3 to extract all data from the 8.1.4 version
> residing in
> /usr4/pgsql_old/data/ and write it to a file (with the -f option) in
> /usr4/postgres-backups.
>
> There are no postmaster or postgres processes running.
As I understand it, pg_dump (and therefore pg_dumpall also) needs a
server process running: you direct it to the correct host with the -h
option.
Ray.
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