Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump not dumping all tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump not dumping all tables
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Msg-id 379F8913.DCFE646E@trust.ee
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In response to pg_dump not dumping all tables  ("G. Anthony Reina" <reina@nsi.edu>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump not dumping all tables
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"G. Anthony Reina" wrote:
> 
> I just installed 6.5.1 on my RH 6.0 PII/400 MHz machine. I had
> previously been running the database on 6.4.2 and had several backups
> made through pgdump. When I tried to restore the database (i.e. psql -e
> db01 < db.backup) all of the tables were created, but only some of them
> had data. These tables are just real tables, not views or anything
> strange. Luckily, I also had a back up where I had pg_dump'ed each table
> separately (so I'm not in a total jam). But I can't figure out why the
> pg_dump didn't backup all of the data.
> 
> -Tony Reina

If there is even one row dumped wrong the data for the whole table is
not 
inserted ;(

I've had this for row's containing \n (or maybe \r) that got dumped as
real 
newline that screwed the whole COPY xxx FROM stdin. 
I resolved it by editing the dumpfile via visual inspection.

Another thing to try would be to dump as proper insert strings (pg_dump
-d) 
instead of copy from. It will be slow to load though ...

---------------------------
Hannu


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