On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Steve Clark <scl...@netwolves.com> wrote:
> mv /var/lib/postgres/data /var/lib/postgres/data.old
Before I move or rename '/var/lib/postgres/data', what version of
PostgreSQL should I be at? 8.4 or 9.0?
> You will then have to do an initdb to create the basic 9.x databases.
> You can then use psql or pg_restore depending on how you dumped
> your data to restore your databases.
I simply ran the following command:
/usr/bin/pg_dump finance > finance.sql
> With fedora you use either:
> /etc/init.d/postgresql initdb
> or
> service postgresql initdb
> to initialize the 9.x database system.
Sadly that command didn't pan out for Arch Linux:
# /etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb
usage: /etc/rc.d/postgresql {start|stop|restart}
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