On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Terry Mackintosh wrote:
> Well yes, but that don't help him any...
>
> What you need is to re-install 6.1, do a dump, then upgrade. As you
> know this then I take it that the real problem is that you no longer
> have a copy of the souce.
>
> For the souce maybe one of the developers can make a tar ball of 6.1
> from CVS for you, or maybe you can get it from CVS yourself anonymously,
> I'm not sure.
Neither are options :( We didn't start *properly* tagging things until
well after v6.1, so you can't just pull a 6.1 version out :( That was one
of things I was gonna try with the v6.3 problem awhile back...
For this, someone is gonna have to pop up with a copy laying about :(
>
> Terry
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I read a mail in the achive from Andrey V Khavryutchenko
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , dated in 01 Dec 1998 12:06:24 +0200, with
> > > subject : recovering data from pgsql 6.1 installation
> > > Since there's no answer to his question in the archives, I'm
> > > posting the same problem here.
> > > I used to have pgsql 6.1 installed, and due to inexperience, it
> > > was forgotten to make a pg_dumpall before upgrade from version 6.1 to
> > > v6.4. Now, I do not have a way to recover all my db's, but I need that
> > > ! I have the old data dir, but how can I upgrade the db's ?
> > >
> > > I tried to make manually the db's table, but pg_upgrade didn't
> > > work. When I run it creates a tmp file but it stays empty. it seems that
> > > the program is waiting for something. The postmaster is working.
> >
> > pg_upgrade can't be used from 6.1 to 6.4.
> >
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