Use pg_restore to restore from a newer version of PostgreSQL

Question

I have a (production) DB server running PostgreSQL v9.0 and a development machine running PostgreSQL v8.4. I would like to take a dump of the production DB and use it on the

Answer 1

I solved this by upgrading postgresql from 8.X to 9.2.4. If you're using brew on Mac OS-X, use -

brew upgrade postgresql

Once this is done, just make sure your new postgres installation is at the top of your path. It'll look something like (depending on the version installation path) -

export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.4/bin:$PATH