Binary backups are not going to work across major releases so just installing 8.0 with your old cluster won't work.
You'll need to do a pg_dump of your old setup and then restore on your new cluster. Hope this helps, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:27:41AM -0400, Mark Mikulec wrote: > Hi there, > > This may be a stupid question but I feel I should ask it anyway just to be > sure, since I've had problems in the past. > > I currently have a defunct Debian 3.0 system running PostgreSQL 7.4.1, in > which I am going to do an entire blob backup dump of all the databases in > hopes to restore them on my new, more secure system running the latest > OpenBSD, and PgSQL 8.0. > > So my question is: Are they any issues that I should be aware up restoring > on a more recent version of PgSQL, and/or issues using a completely > different operating system altogether? I have some strange pg language > mishaps going from 7.2 to 7.4 last backup, although frightening, I overcame > them with some fiddling. > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > > -- > ___________________ > Roses are #FF0000 > Violets are #0000FF, > All my base > Are belong to you. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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