Thread: Update 6.5 database files to 7.0

I have an old server which crashed last week, which had a few Postgresql
database running on v6.5. The operating system would not load, but I managed
to extract the files from the drive by placing it as a secondary drive on
another machine.

The rough and ready solution is to move the databases to our newer server,
which is running v7.0, but I now have the problem that there is apparently
no way to upgrade the database files to the new version (without having a
server running 6.5 to dump them).

Is there a way to convert the databases from the files?

send your raw data files to a nice guy who has v6.5 running and makes the dump
file for you.

Adam Wyard wrote:

> I have an old server which crashed last week, which had a few Postgresql
> database running on v6.5. The operating system would not load, but I managed
> to extract the files from the drive by placing it as a secondary drive on
> another machine.
>
> The rough and ready solution is to move the databases to our newer server,
> which is running v7.0, but I now have the problem that there is apparently
> no way to upgrade the database files to the new version (without having a
> server running 6.5 to dump them).
>
> Is there a way to convert the databases from the files?
>
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