Howdy: 

Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2 kernel 2.4.7-10. 

This past weekend, I was trying to test PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on a backup 
box.  I did a pg_dump of my production database (7.2.1) and tried 
to load it on my development DB (7.2.2).  When I did, I got 
a slew of errors pertaining to invalid data inside the tables. 

For example, if I tried to restore a table that has an invalid date in 
the date column, an error is generated.  My questions are: 

1) If the errors are generated, does that mean that the record is 
skipped each time there is invalid data in the table or the table is 
skipped? 

2) How can I check the integrity of the new database if pg_dump 
is not loading all of the information from the production database? 

3) I tried doing something like: 

[snip] 

pg_dump -i -Fc -S postgres -d testdb | pg_restore -v -h 192.168.0.2 -S \ 
postgres -d testdb 

[/snip] 

And got a list or errors - mostly because a few tables did not have read 
permissions set to them.  I have to go threw them by hand to change permissions 
(It's odd: how is it that you can create a table but the table will NOT have 
the owner or it's permissions on it?  like so: 

[snip permissions] 

testdb=> \dp forums_auth 
  Access privileges for database "testdb" 
       Table            | Access privileges 
-----------------------------------+------------------- 
 forums_auth            | 
 forums_auth_id_seq     | 

[/snip permissions] 



I'm sure I can do a count or something of each table, but, this also 
means my backup / recovery method is screwy because I can't 
recover anything that PostgreSQL throws errors at. 

How is everyone else in the world reloading tables that may have 
invalid data? 

Thanks! 

-X

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