Re: Migrating Postgresql 8.0 to 8.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

quickinfo wrote:
> I would like to migrate postgresql 8.0 to 8.3. Please suggest me the
best way of restoring my backup.
>
> In which format should I take the backup and how should I restore the
data. Does it require to write
> any sql script. will it create any problems in migrating 8.0 to 8.3.

Follow there directions:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/install-upgrading.html

There is one behaviour change in 8.3 that caused problems for many
people:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html#AEN87860
Read the first point.

If that is a problem for you, read this:
http://petereisentraut.blogspot.co.at/2008/03/readding-implicit-casts-in
-postgresql.html

You should definitely upgrade to 9.1 and not to 8.3

Yours,
Laurenz Albe