Re: [GENERAL] Accessing an old database from a new OS installation.

2006-01-27 Thread Doug McNaught
"A. Kretschmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > am 27.01.2006, um 14:21:31 + mailte Matthew Henderson folgendes: >> Okay, so if I have 7.4 installed and I have the old >> harddisk mount under /mnt/hda can I do something >> like >> >> pg_dump /mnt/hda/path_to_old_database > dump.txt > > No,

Re: [GENERAL] Accessing an old database from a new OS installation.

2006-01-27 Thread A. Kretschmer
am 27.01.2006, um 14:21:31 + mailte Matthew Henderson folgendes: > Okay, so if I have 7.4 installed and I have the old > harddisk mount under /mnt/hda can I do something > like > > pg_dump /mnt/hda/path_to_old_database > dump.txt No, this is imposible IMHO. You need a PG-Server with this

Re: [GENERAL] Accessing an old database from a new OS installation.

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew Henderson
Okay, so if I have 7.4 installed and I have the old harddisk mount under /mnt/hda can I do something like pg_dump /mnt/hda/path_to_old_database > dump.txt ??? On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:47:21PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 11:30 schrieb Matthew Henderson: >

Re: [GENERAL] Accessing an old database from a new OS installation.

2006-01-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 11:30 schrieb Matthew Henderson: > How should I go about doing this? Are there any problems > I should be aware of in moving from version 7.4 to 8.1? For one thing you won't be able to read the 7.4 database using 8.1 binaries, so you need to get 7.4 installed first in