Thread: Help with restore

Im having a little problem. First let me say im a total newbie as far as
sys-admin and such. Normally Im just a production guy. But as of late im
starting to have more responsibilties, backup, set up new clients,  etc.
so please bear with me in my detail I just dont know what info you need
and what you dont......

I made a back up like this:
pg_dump -v -Fc -f bkp.tar.gz dbname

then I dropped the db
then I recreated the db
then when I tried to restore like this:
pg_restore -v -O -d dbname bkp.tar.gz

after I enter the password I get
pg_restore: creating FUNC PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql_call_handler()
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  function
"plpgsql_call_handler" already exists with same argument types
pg_restore: *** aborted because of error

however after looking back over my notes and the documentation that I
recieved I noticed that I was supposed to make the backup like this:
pg_dump -U dbname -v -Fc -f bkp.tar.gz dbname

Sincec this is apearantly a specific way to make the backup Im assuming
that that is why the restore doesnt work since it was setup do restore
form that specific backup syntax. What I would like to know is, how I
can get the data out of this archive, so that I can recover the data and
put it back in place and get the site up and running.

any suggestions?????

Thanks in Advance

Allen Smith

> after I enter the password I get
> pg_restore: creating FUNC PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql_call_handler()
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  function
> "plpgsql_call_handler" already exists with same argument types
> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error
>
> however after looking back over my notes and the documentation that I
> recieved I noticed that I was supposed to make the backup like this:
> pg_dump -U dbname -v -Fc -f bkp.tar.gz dbname
>

I had the same problem.

One way is to use as template the table template0 with the following
command :

createdb yourdatabasename -T template0

and then

pg_restore ....

it works if you didn't make anychanges to your template1 table.

hope it helps

Dilipan


> Sincec this is apearantly a specific way to make the backup Im
> assuming that that is why the restore doesnt work since it was setup
> do restore form that specific backup syntax. What I would like to know
> is, how I can get the data out of this archive, so that I can recover
> the data and put it back in place and get the site up and running.
>
> any suggestions?????
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Allen Smith
>
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