Re: Examining very large dumps - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tino Schwarze
Subject Re: Examining very large dumps
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Msg-id 20080416095245.GC31097@easy2.in-chemnitz.de
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In response to Examining very large dumps  (Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:35:26PM +0300, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Hi, i just started the process of migrating from 7.4 to 8.3.1.
> On restoring, apart from the easily explainable ERRORs (both in DDL, COPY), i got some ugly ERRORs
> denoting foreign key constraint violations.
> Since the dump is 35 Gbytes, i'd like your advice for examining, editing, extracting portions of large dumps,
> in order to find the cause of the problem. vim (linux), vi (FreeBSD) or any other unix editor i tried, could not
handlethe 
> volume.

Do you have a plain text dump or a compressed archive? Try using less
for a first view, then extract things with grep or alter with sed.

HTH,

Tino.

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