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restoring a dump

From
Phuong Ma
Date:
Hello, I have been trying to restore my dump and it seems like it is not
working.  I put the dump in a tar file and when I untarred it, there are
several .dat files, a toc.dat file, and a restore.sql file.  I used psql
to restore these files into a database.  I first started restoring the
restore.sql file, then the .dat files, and lastly, the toc.dat.  When I
did the toc.dat file, I received an error message.  These are the  

pg_dump -C -D -F t > test.tar
tar -xvf test.tar
psql restore.sql
psql test < 19.dat
psql test < 20.dat .. and so on
psql test < toc.dat

This is the error message:
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "pgdmp"
CHANGE
ERROR:  non-existent group "test"
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near """

I also tried using the pg_restore, but I don't know how that would work
on these separate files.  Is there another way I can restore the dump? 
Maybe an easier way than what I have been using?  And do I need to
restore what is in the toc.dat?

Thank you for your help.

timeout

From
Jie Liang
Date:
Is ther any to set a timeout when execute a sql stmt??



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Re: restoring a dump

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Phuong Ma writes:

> pg_dump -C -D -F t > test.tar
> tar -xvf test.tar
> psql restore.sql
> psql test < 19.dat
> psql test < 20.dat .. and so on
> psql test < toc.dat

I believe you're supposed to use pg_restore on the tar file itself.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

Re: restoring a dump

From
Phuong Ma
Date:
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> Phuong Ma writes:
> 
> > pg_dump -C -D -F t > test.tar
> > tar -xvf test.tar
> > psql restore.sql
> > psql test < 19.dat
> > psql test < 20.dat .. and so on
> > psql test < toc.dat
> 
> I believe you're supposed to use pg_restore on the tar file itself.
> 
> --
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

I tried using pg_restore, but it did not restore the dump successfully. 
Maybe it is the syntax I'm using, but I remember reading that you cannot
use the pg_restore to restore a dump that uses INSERT.  Does anyone know
of a way I could undump my db?

Re: restoring a dump

From
Wei Weng
Date:
Do not understand your question.

On 28 Jun 2001 16:32:47 -0700, Phuong Ma wrote:
<snip>
> I tried using pg_restore, but it did not restore the dump successfully. 
> Maybe it is the syntax I'm using, but I remember reading that you cannot
> use the pg_restore to restore a dump that uses INSERT.  Does anyone know
What do you mean by "dump that uses INSERT"?a

> of a way I could undump my db?
> 


-- 
Wei Weng
Network Software Engineer
KenCast Inc.

Re: [ADMIN] timeout

From
Jeremy Buchmann
Date:
> Is ther any to set a timeout when execute a sql stmt??

I believe this depends on the interface...for example, in JDBC, it
is this:

Statement s = new Statement();
s.setQueryTimeout(20);  // Sets query timeout to 20 seconds.
...

I don't know what other interfaces offer timeouts, but that's where
you should look to find out.


--Jeremy