Hi,
I am just getting into large objects and bytea "stuff".
I created a small db called pictures and loaded some large
objects and then tried to do a restore.
Here is how I got the dump.
pg_dump -Fc -b pictures > /Users/jerry/desktop/db.comp
Here is the archive listing. Note I edited just to restore
the blobs.
;
; Archive created at Fri Aug 6 15:40:56 2004
; dbname: pictures
; TOC Entries: 14
; Compression: -1
; Dump Version: 1.7-0
; Format: CUSTOM
; Integer: 4 bytes
; Offset: 8 bytes
;
;
; Selected TOC Entries:
;
;11; 21906 FUNC PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql_call_handler() postgres
;10; 21907 PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql
;4; 2200 ACL public postgres
;5; 21984 TABLE pics levan
;6; 22024 TABLE person levan
;12; 21984 TABLE DATA pics levan
;13; 22024 TABLE DATA person levan
14; 0 BLOBS BLOBS
;9; 21990 CONSTRAINT pics_ident_key levan
;7; 21982 SEQUENCE SET pics_ident_seq levan
;8; 22022 SEQUENCE SET person_id_seq levan
;3; 2200 COMMENT SCHEMA public postgres
toc 14 looks suspicious.
Here is what I did to restore:
pg_restore -L db.lst db.comp
This is the result of the command.
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--
SET client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';
SET check_function_bodies = false;
--
-- Data for TOC entry 14 (OID 0)
-- Name: BLOBS; Type: BLOBS; Schema: -; Owner:
-- Data Pos: 4843111
--
--
-- SKIPPED
--
pg_restore: [archiver] WARNING: skipping large-object restoration
[macjerry:~/desktop]$ pg_restore -L db.lst db.comp
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--
SET client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';
SET check_function_bodies = false;
--
-- Data for TOC entry 14 (OID 0)
-- Name: BLOBS; Type: BLOBS; Schema: -; Owner:
-- Data Pos: 4843111
--
--
-- SKIPPED
--
pg_restore: [archiver] WARNING: skipping large-object restoration
I even deleted the large objects via \lo_unlink but get the same
response.
OK, what am I doing wrong?
Jerry