Re: [GENERAL] DB Migration 8.4 -> 8.3

2009-06-15 Thread Eoghan Murray
2009/6/15 Glyn Astill : > Try the 8.4 pg_restore against the 8.3 server > Thanks!, that worked! FWIW I set up an ssh connection with the reverse/remote forwarding option -R Also the error message on pg_restore should have read: 8.3: pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.11) in file h

Re: [GENERAL] DB Migration 8.4 -> 8.3

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Lane
Eoghan Murray writes: > How can I migrate a database from 8.4 to 8.3? The only way is to dump to text (no -Fc or -Ft) with 8.4's pg_dump, and then manually edit the file until 8.3 will take it. >8.3: pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a > valid archive It's possible her

Re: [GENERAL] DB Migration 8.4 -> 8.3

2009-06-15 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Mon, 15/6/09, Eoghan Murray wrote: > From: Eoghan Murray > Subject: [GENERAL] DB Migration 8.4 -> 8.3 > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Date: Monday, 15 June, 2009, 10:19 PM > I unintentionally installed 8.4beta2 > on a server (using yum), while I > run

[GENERAL] DB Migration 8.4 -> 8.3

2009-06-15 Thread Eoghan Murray
I unintentionally installed 8.4beta2 on a server (using yum), while I run 8.3.7 on my dev machine. The 8.3 version of pg_dump does not work with the server, even with the -i option: 8.3: pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: column "reltriggers" does not exist the 8.4 pg_dump works okay, b