Moving a PostgreSQL database from one server to another

[Anthony E. Greene]

On 1:16 Jan 14, 2005 Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi at telus.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> >  If the destination is the same CPU type you
> >  can get away with copying the files under /var/lib/pgsql/ instead,
>
> isn't this something dangerous to do, regardless of the cpu being the
> same ?

The PostgreSQL versions should be the same too. Sometimes the binary file
format changes between versions.


--Tony