Re: pgsql 7.0 recovery to 7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql 7.0 recovery to 7.4
Date
Msg-id 6064.1073573087@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pgsql 7.0 recovery to 7.4  (Marcin Gil <marcin.gil@audax.com.pl>)
Responses Re: pgsql 7.0 recovery to 7.4  (Marcin Gil <marcin.gil@audax.com.pl>)
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Marcin Gil <marcin.gil@audax.com.pl> writes:
> I've just suffered a serious disk meltdown. Successfully I've got
> all the files from pgsql 7.0 backed up.
> Now I have problem because 7.4 won't read them (obviuos).
> Is there a way to upgrade those files to v7.4?

You mean a filesystem-level dump of the data directory?  Sorry, the
only way to deal with that is to install 7.0.something and then make
a pg_dump or pg_dumpall dump.

> I've tried to compile v7.0 on my slack 9.1 but it won't.

I wouldn't be too surprised if it needs some minor tweaking for newer
Linuxen.

            regards, tom lane

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