Обсуждение: bad dump

Hi all,

Still fighting with my database dump from 8.1.1 here.

I can not use this dump to rebuild the database in 7.3.4 (RHEL 3) or
8.0.1 (mac OS X)

I am convinced that the dump has issues... looked in the doc and don't
seem to be missing anything. I have been dumping and rebuilding for the
last 6 years (pg version 7).

Tony

On May 2, 2006, at 7:02 AM, tony wrote:

> Still fighting with my database dump from 8.1.1 here.
>
> I can not use this dump to rebuild the database in 7.3.4 (RHEL 3) or
> 8.0.1 (mac OS X)
>
> I am convinced that the dump has issues... looked in the doc and don't
> seem to be missing anything. I have been dumping and rebuilding for
> the
> last 6 years (pg version 7).

I would have concerns about going from a newer version to an older
version (the other way around is less problematic). But you gave no
clues about specific errors or the format of the dump you are trying
to load.

John



John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

Le mardi 02 mai 2006 à 09:26 -0400, John DeSoi a écrit :

> > Still fighting with my database dump from 8.1.1 here.
> >
> > I can not use this dump to rebuild the database in 7.3.4 (RHEL 3) or
> > 8.0.1 (mac OS X)
> >
> > I am convinced that the dump has issues... looked in the doc and don't
> > seem to be missing anything. I have been dumping and rebuilding for
> > the
> > last 6 years (pg version 7).
>
> I would have concerns about going from a newer version to an older
> version (the other way around is less problematic). But you gave no
> clues about specific errors or the format of the dump you are trying
> to load.

I tried inserts and got errors - the tables were not all rebuilt. Most
of the tables were rebuilt and data was inserted just fine but three
core tables are missing.

Reading through the dump file there are no clues to what is different in
these three (ownership, rights etc.). There are no blobs or complicated
procedures or anything else in the database, very basic, not too big (17
Mb dump file un compacted)...

So back to the good old fashioned way - export data as text, create
database and tables and copy back in from text file.

What really puzzles me is the partial restore. If it is broke it should
be broke everywhere...

Tony

Le mardi 02 mai 2006 à 09:26 -0400, John DeSoi a écrit :

> > I am convinced that the dump has issues... looked in the doc and don't
> > seem to be missing anything. I have been dumping and rebuilding for
> > the
> > last 6 years (pg version 7).
>
> I would have concerns about going from a newer version to an older
> version (the other way around is less problematic). But you gave no
> clues about specific errors or the format of the dump you are trying
> to load.

Reading through in a text editor (nedit) rather than with pico or nano
in a terminal the sql colour coding gives me a clue:

    - the data contains non escaped ' as in "d'Anjou"

Is this my issue?

Tony

On May 2, 2006, at 10:07 AM, tony wrote:

> Reading through in a text editor (nedit) rather than with pico or nano
> in a terminal the sql colour coding gives me a clue:
>
>     - the data contains non escaped ' as in "d'Anjou"
>
> Is this my issue?

Again, you have not posted exactly what the error is. Show the
commands you used to dump and restore and include the exact error
output from the restore operation.


John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

Le mardi 02 mai 2006 à 10:26 -0400, John DeSoi a écrit :
> On May 2, 2006, at 10:07 AM, tony wrote:
>
> > Reading through in a text editor (nedit) rather than with pico or nano
> > in a terminal the sql colour coding gives me a clue:
> >
> >     - the data contains non escaped ' as in "d'Anjou"
> >
> > Is this my issue?
>
> Again, you have not posted exactly what the error is. Show the
> commands you used to dump and restore and include the exact error
> output from the restore operation.

pg_dump with -d option and psql as per the doc

lots of errors fly by during the restore the most remarkable being
"illegal command \N" and "relation does not exist" for the non restored
tables

In the end the database exists I can connect to it and browse the data
that is there.

But like I said I am going back to the manual way that I used in the
good old days.

Thanks

Tony