Frustrated...pg_dump/restore - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Amiel
Subject Frustrated...pg_dump/restore
Date
Msg-id 481635.49973.qm@web65501.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Whole thread Raw
Responses Re: Frustrated...pg_dump/restore  (ries van Twisk <pg@rvt.dds.nl>)
List pgsql-general
I performed a pg_dump on a database and created a new schema-only database to copy that data into.

However trying to use psql -f to load the data in, I get a plethora of syntax errors including the dreaded "invalid
command\N". 

I even tried to pipe the pg_dump results directly into the psql command....

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -U  pgsql --data-only db1  | /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -U pgsql db2

Same results.

Why?

using -d (switching to inserts instead of COPY) seems to work just fine but is so slow as to be unusable.

Is the COPY pg_dump method useful at all in ANY situation?

Do I have to do a pg_dump using a custom archive option and use pg_resore to make this work? (sounds silly to me).

Any help would be appreciated.




pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Raymond O'Donnell
Date:
Subject: Re: restore a dump db from tar file
Next
From: Jeff Amiel
Date:
Subject: function returning setof..select versus select * from