Re: [PORTS] Can a pg_dump file be loaded into a different OS?
Michael Fuhr <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:12:06AM -0700, Anye M. Sellers wrote: > I've got a client that has Postgres running on Linux > but my own development environment is on Windows. Is > it feasible for me to have him do a pg_dump through > the pgAdmin tool and then for me to restore that file, > or are the files formatted differently in both OS's? See the documentation for pg_dump: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/app-pgdump.html "Dumps can be output in script or archive file formats. Script dumps are plain-text files.... Script files can be used to reconstruct the database even on other machines and other architectures...." "The archive files are also designed to be portable across architectures." -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster