Moving a PostgreSQL database from one server to another

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:16, Aly Dharshi 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 ?

You must have the service stopped and the program version on the
destination machine should be the same, but otherwise there is nothing
magic about the file.

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