Re: [GENERAL] Restoring a Databases that features tserach2 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Fischer Ulrich
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Restoring a Databases that features tserach2
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Msg-id 4087D682.6020803@aerodynamics.ch
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Restoring a Databases that features tserach2  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Fischer Ulrich <ulrich.fischer@aerodynamics.ch> writes:
>
>>pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 7.3.2
>
>
>>   (pg_dumpall -g GLOBALobjects.sql)
>>   pg_dump -s DATABASE > DBschema.sql
>>   pg_dump -Fc DATABASE > DBdata.tar
>
>
>>and rebuilt on the new system with:
>
>
>>psql (PostgreSQL) 7.4.1
>>  1.   createdb DATABASE
>>  2.   (psql DATABASE < GLOBALobjects.sql)
>>  3.   psql DATABASE < tsearch2.sql
>>  3.a. psql DATABASE < setup_ge_ispell.sql
>>  4.   psql DATABASE < DBschema.sql
>>  5.   pg_restore -N -a -v -d DATABASE DBdata.tar
>
>
> This is certainly not going to work because the dump from the old
> database will already have all the tsearch2 objects, not to mention
> whatever setup_ge_ispell.sql may create.  You should get rid of steps
> 3 and 3a.

Get rid of Step 3 and 3a produces Errors in Step 4 like:

:
CREATE TABLE
REVOKE
GRANT
CREATE TABLE
REVOKE
GRANT
ERROR:  type "tsvector" does not exist
ERROR:  relation "mitarbeiter" does not exist
:

So I think this is not a good idea ;-) I've got now a Sollution which
I'll post after writing and testing my own HowTo!


regards

Ulrich



>
>
>>There is no difference when dumped with "pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 7.4.1". I
>>get the same error. When I do not update the dict-settings
>>(setup_ge_ispell.sql) I can not even restore the other datas.
>
>
> If you're still having trouble, try dropping the -N option to pg_restore.
> I don't know why that option even exists ... there is no practical use
> to it AFAIK.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>


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