Re: Backup questions

Does anyone know what is going on with my 2nd question below?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jason Tesser
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:09 AM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Backup questions
>
> I have 2 questions.
>
> 1. What is the best way to back up a production box running Postgres
> nightly?
>
> 2.  I thought the best way was to create a script that would use
pg_dump
> to
> create a dump every night and then use restore if I need to.  I did
this
> but
> I am having a problem.  Apparently there were a few Primary key Big
> Serial
> fields that had the name changed on them after they were created.  The
> backup works fine but during the restore it fails because it thinks
> a relation is missing.  Before restoring the database with the changed
> fields works fine, I just cannot get it to restore.  Is there
something
> in the background that Postgres is hanging on to after I renamed the
> fields that is preventing me from restoring?  How can I work around
> this?
>
> Thank you
> Jason Tesser
> Software Development
> NMI 715-324-6900 x5273
>
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