Re: Problem restoring Database - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 20:08, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> mike wrote:
> > I have just upgraded froom Fedora test1 to test2 which has upgraded
> > postgres version from 7.4.2 to 7.4.5 (frrom rpm -q)
>
> Uhh unless I am missing something what you have done is impossible.
> There is no 7.4.5....
>
> Are you sure it didn't upgrade from 7.3.2 to 7.3.5? Or WORSE:
>
> 7.3.2 to 7.4.2?
>
> If you have your dump still, you should be in fine shape. What flags
> did you pass to pg_dumpall?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>

even more curious is that I have just done a new dump/restore using
pg_dump (ie: not dumpall) and eveything worked fine

> >
> > I have used pg_dumpall to dump my database, the restore appeared to go
> > OK, except there is no data in two of my tables (only these two)
> >
> > output from \d \d tb_invoice_header
> >                                           Table
> > "public.tb_invoice_header"
> >        Column       |         Type
> > |                               Modifiers
> >
--------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  inv_id             | integer               | not null default
> > nextval('public.tb_invoice_header_inv_id_seq'::text)
> >  client_id          | integer               |
> >  payable_recievable | character varying(15) |
> >  amount             | money                 |
> >  amount_paid        | money                 |
> >  date_paid          | date                  |
> >  cheque             | character varying(20) |
> > Indexes:
> >     "ih_pk" primary key, btree (inv_id)
> >
> >  \d tb_invoice_detail
> >                                      Table "public.tb_invoice_detail"
> >    Column    |          Type          |
> > Modifiers
> > -------------+------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  id          | integer                | not null default
> > nextval('public.tb_invoice_detail_id_seq'::text)
> >  invoice_id  | integer                |
> >  code        | character varying(15)  |
> >  description | character varying(100) |
> >  amount      | money                  |
> >  vat_code    | smallint               |
> >  line_total  | money                  |
> > Indexes:
> >     "tb_id_pk" primary key, btree (id)
> > Foreign-key constraints:
> >     "$1" FOREIGN KEY (invoice_id) REFERENCES tb_invoice_header(inv_id)
> >
> > The dump file contains all the data
> >
> > Anyone have any idea what is happening, and more important how to rescue
> >
> > thanks
> >
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