Re: move dbs from 8.1 to 8.4 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

I also realized that during the restore any database with latin1 encoding is not created at all

psql:pgdbs:167: ERROR:  encoding LATIN1 does not match locale en_US.UTF-8

DETAIL:  The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding UTF8.

About half my databases are latin1.

My problem is now two fold, how do I migrate the databases with their tables and data and migrate the latin1 encoded databases?

Thanks

I built a new server running centos 6.4 and postgresql 8.4. I backed up all the databases from the old server running fedora and postgresql 8.1 using this script.

#!/bin/bash

# Backup all Postgresql databases

# Location of the backup logfile.

logfile="/var/lib/pgsql/backups/logs/pg_back.log"

# Location to place backups.

backup_dir="/var/lib/pgsql/backups"

touch $logfile

timeslot=`date +%m-%d-%Y_%H-%M`

timeinfo=`date '+%T-%F'`

/usr/bin/vacuumdb -azh 127.0.0.1 -U postgres

/usr/bin/pg_dumpall -ch 127.0.0.1 -U postgres | gzip > "$backup_dir/postgresql-all-$timeslot-databases.gz"

echo "Backup of all databses complete at $timeinfo for time slot $timeslot--pg_dumpall." >> $logfile

The new server is running postgresql 8.4.

When I restore the databases, with the commands below, only the databases are created, no tables and no data is restored.

• gunzip postgresql-all-10-10-2013_04-07-databases.gz
• psql -U postgres -f postgresql-all-10-10-2013_04-07-databases postgres

The above works between two different servers that both run 8.1.

What am I missing to restore all my databases with tables and data from 8.1 to the new 8.4?

Thanks