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Re: Salvage older PostgreSQL data disk - help?

Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>

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From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-12-19T20:05:13Z
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:43:24AM +0000, Conrad wrote:
> 
> It would be real nice if we could use one of the old server drives
> to restore his PostgreSQL DB - without having to build an old 
> PostgreSQL server just to extract the data, then rebuild on a 7.3 
> server.
> 
> Is this feasible? Pits or tipfalls, anyone? 

No.  You need the old server.

A

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