Thread: DB migration from Win (cygwin) to Linux (RH 7.2): 9223372036854775807 error

I'm having an issue moving my DB from from Win (Cygwin) to Linux 7.2.  If
I go from Linux to Cygwin, no probs, everything works fine, creates a new
database beautifully.

However, if I take the exact same DB (which contains data) and try the
following on Linux:

        %> psql -d cmsdb -f cmsdb.sql

I get the following:

psql:cmsdb.sql:12: ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near
"9223372036854775807"
psql:cmsdb.sql:27: NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit
index 'ratingcontentandtype_pkey' for table 'rating'

Any table with a serial decleration has this problem, and the serial
tables don't get built.  I wondered if this was due to a MAXINT issue on
Linux, so I wrote a small C program wher I found out that the MAXINT and
LONG are both: 2147483647 -- The catch is that the same is true on my Win
box.

What's going on here, and what can I do to get around this problem?

We're on Postgres 7.1.

        Thx,
        Aurangzeb

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aagha <at> bigfoot <dot> com

On 1 Nov 2002 at 8:33, aagha@bigfoot.com wrote:

> I'm having an issue moving my DB from from Win (Cygwin) to Linux 7.2.  If
> I go from Linux to Cygwin, no probs, everything works fine, creates a new
> database beautifully.
>
> However, if I take the exact same DB (which contains data) and try the
> following on Linux:
>
>         %> psql -d cmsdb -f cmsdb.sql
>
> I get the following:
>
> psql:cmsdb.sql:12: ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near
> "9223372036854775807"

Is that last field in that line? You are running into \r\n problem. Try some
simple scripts or dos2unix etc to convert the dump to unix style. There was a
sed one liner posted on the list few days back..

Bye
 Shridhar

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