how migrate data postgres 8.4 to 9.1
Hello,
is there precaution or procedure to migrate database from postgres 8.4 to 9.1
I want to test nuxeo 5.6 on a newer install. I using in production nuxeo 5.5 on ubuntu 10.04 with postgres 8.4 VM5.6 in test propose ubuntu 12.04 with postgres 9.1 (recommended)
I mean it's a good opportunities to test migration to last supported software.
thanks for your return of experience. etien
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You can either
- perform a pg_dump (version 9.1) remotely onto the running 8.4 or
- use pg_upgrade http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/pgupgrade.html
I tried both and it works pretty fine