From: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 07:57:01AM +0200, Cyril VELTER wrote:
> > From: "Doug McNaught" <doug@mcnaught.org>
> > > "Cyril VELTER" <cyril.velter@metadys.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to dump a database from a 7.1.3 server to a 7.4.2 one.
> > > > It doesn't works because of difference in COPY format (unless I
> > > > use -d which is VERY slow on a 16G database).
> > >
> > > Try using the 7.4.2 version of pg_dump to dump out the 7.1.3
> > > database. pg_dump is written to talk to multiple versions of the
> > > server, and it's generally recommended to use the same version of
> > > pg_dump as the server you're restoring into.
> >
> > That's what I already do, but the problem is in COPY TO format
> > (which is handled by the backend ? right ?)
>
> What backend? 7.4-pg_dump will generate 7.4-backend's compatible
> input, and the 7.1-backend does not interact at all --- save with
> 7.4-pg_dump, which will make itself understood easily ...
>
> Lots of people (including me) use this procedure to upgrade rather
> smoothly. What's your problem exactly?
Thanks for your response,
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it seems that pg_dump (the 7.4 one) will send
a COPY to STDOUT command to the 7.1 backend and blindly copy the output to
the dump file.
Here's the kind of errors I get :
ERROR: literal carriage return found in data
HINT: Use "\r" to represent carriage return.
CONTEXT: COPY c244, line 221: "662188 1002 1002 2002-08-05
12:15:12.20+00 2002-08-05 12:15:12.20+00 274 0000
01000100202010000000000..."
By looking more closely in the dump file, there is a CR (embedded in a
text field) which is not encoded and confuse the restore
cyril