Thom Brown wrote:
> >> The only options available are:
> >>
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Are those instructions for an older version?
> >>
> >
> > That's Bruce's book which is probably 8 or 9 years old now. It's
> > almost certainly referring to the old pg_upgrade shell script from
> > years ago.
> >
>
> Ah, unfortunately that's the first result in Google. I've resorted to
I am sure that will change soon. :-) The right URL is now #7 on
Google:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgupgrade.html
> restoring from a full backup :( I don't think I could use it for
> upgrading from beta 1 to beta 2 anyway by the looks of things. The
> binary directories are updated since they share the same version
> number.
You certainly could have. The docs say:
F.31.1. Supported Versions
pg_upgrade supports upgrades from 8.3.X and later to the current major
release of PostgreSQL, including snapshot and alpha releases.
In fact, we were hoping people would test pg_upgrade during the required
beta2 catalog change.
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