Hello Mark!
Generally for such a version change, I would recommend the following as the "cleanest" way to upgrade:- Create a new PostgreSQL 8.2.5 installation - Install the latest PostGIS, and create a new spatial database - Dump the tables/sequences from your PostgreSQL 8.1.5 installation using pg_dump, and restore to your PostgreSQL 8.2.5 installation - If there are a lot of tables, pg_dump the entire database and then use pg_restore -L/-l options to restore only the tables/sequences in your database rather than any other internal objects - If there are a few objects, you may find it easier to use pg_dump -t for the individual tables/sequences Also: you really want to install the latest 1.3.2 release rather than 1.3.1 - this version has several known bugs which are likely to cause problems for you.
Thanks very much for your advice. As I still have the dumps made from old version before upgrade, I could probably just drop the databases and re-create them, but this would mean losing couple of hours worth of 'production' data. I use the word production in quotes, since there is actually not much production going on, so losing this data is no big deal. However, I wonder whether I could also dump the databases from *new* version, then re-create them and restore tables using pg_restore -L. It seems to me that this should achieve the same goal?
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