Re: - upgrade advice - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: - upgrade advice
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Msg-id 4DE89CBF020000250003E076@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to - upgrade advice  (fel <fellsin@hotmail.com>)
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fel <fellsin@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have a small server running RHEL 5.2 32bit / Postgresql 8.3.3.
> I would like to upgrade Postgres to 9.0 on a new server running
> RHEL 5.5 but 64bit.
>
> What would be the best solution :
> - Dump data from 32bit to 64bit then upgrade to v9.0 (using
>   pg_upgrade).
> - Upgrade to v9.0 then dump from 32 to 64bit.
> - Dump from 8.3-32bit to 9.0-64bit.

I would use pg_dump executing on the new system (pointing to the old
database) and pipe the output directly into psql to populate the new
database.

-Kevin

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