Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> Hi, i just started the process of migrating from 7.4 to 8.3.1.
> On restoring, apart from the easily explainable ERRORs (both in DDL, COPY), i got some ugly ERRORs
> denoting foreign key constraint violations.
> Since the dump is 35 Gbytes, i'd like your advice for examining, editing, extracting portions of large dumps,
Did you make the dump using 8.3's pg_dump?
IIRC 7.4 still didn't know about ordering the elements of a dump to
avoid forward-reference problems.
regards, tom lane