follow the other thread that you started. there are some suggestions for
you.
2011/10/6 Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sha...@orkash.com>
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> That's the bottleneck I need to solve:-
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> Previous data & Os Version :- Postgresql-8.3 and Suse Enterprise Linux
> New Data & OS Version :- Postgresql-8.4 and Ubuntu 10.04
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> What to do know?
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> Thanks
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> Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
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> On 06/10/2011 11:34, Filip Rembiałkowski wrote:
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> To use existing data directory in new installation, you can just stop
> the server, replace data_directory, and start the server. Remember about
> file permissions - data_directory must be owned by server process owner
> ("postgres") and chmod 700.
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> BUT - and this is a big but - the data *must* be from the same Postgres
> major version, same architecture, etc.
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> This might have been mentioned upthread, but it's worth repeating.
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> Ray.
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