Hi Roland, Szabó Roland wrote: > > Hi! > > Reading the archives I understand this is a problem of postgres version > prior 7.1, and I'm experiencing the very same error as Steve Riley > reported last month. I saw that the suggestion was to use 7.2, but I'm > not sure you meant dump 7.1 database from 7.1 backend using 7.2 pg_dump. > We have approx. 1.5 Gb of data in a 7.1 database, and would not like to > loose it, but cannot dump it with 7.1.
Well, just to make sure you're safe, before testing anything you should at least make a backup of the entire PostgreSQL $PGDATA directory (*with PostgreSQL not running!*). That way, if anything does go wrong, you can always copy this backup into place and um.. try again (but differently of course). :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > If this is the way to go, please > confirm that. > Thank you for your time. > > Roland Szabo > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
