Re: Export and import from one postgres server to another

On 05/30/2012 10:01 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 06:56 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> On 05/29/2012 02:27 AM, Alexander Reichstadt wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to "simply" export my postgres database from one server
>>> and then import it into another. I thought I could use PhpPgAdmin,
>>> but the hints on the web don't seem to work. One said to simply get
>>> a dump from one phpPgAdmin, the go to the other server, select the
>>> database, click the SQL button and then select the dump file. When I
>>> do this the import fails because the dump file begins with a
>>> \connect statement.
>>
>> I don't really know why pg_dump includes that \connect , but it isn't
>> the only problem you'll hit with that approach. PgAdmin-III seems to
>> wrap the invoked SQL in a transaction, and the dump will try to
>> (re)-create the `postgres' role, which will fail and abort the
>> transaction.
>
> Well just to keep the confusion level down a bit, the OP was referring
> to phpPgAdmin:)

Argh, I missed that. Thanks very much for spotting and correcting it.

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Craig Ringer