On 10/9/07, Reece Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 17:34 -0700, Ralph Smith wrote: > > What is the best way to upgrade? Use pg_dumpall (using 8.2's program), > afterwards redirect that file into v8.2 via psql v8.2? > > > There are lots of ways to do this. My favorite is to bring a new cluster > on port 5433 and then pipe data between them, roughly like this: > > $ /path/to/7.4/pg_dumpall -p5432 ... | /path/to/8.2/psql -p5433 -qaf- > > restore.log 2>&1 >
Note that when possible you should dump with the pg_dump/pg_dumpall of the version you're going to, in this case 8.2's pg_dumpall
