Hello I' am new in the forum amd I send the question below to the forum because I thought that I could get a statement whether I do a mistake or whether it is a bug. And because I hoped to get a pointer what I can do to solve the problem ;-)
I try to restore a dump of a PostgreSQL 7.4 db into PostgrSQL 8.0.1 on Windows XP SP1 1) When using pgadmin III it asks for a *.backup file which I do not have and the OK button is greyed out when selecting the dump file - thus this option does not work. 2) When using psql as I do it on Linux (Suse 9.0) successfully I cannot enter the password. In a command prompt of Windows I get the following effect: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin>psql phprvitadb < C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin\phprvitadb200503082100.dump -U gsc Passwort: psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "gsc" C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It looks that I did not enter the correct password but actually the system did not allow me to enter a password. The 2 lines: Passwort: psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "gsc" are written in one step. Is that a bug? I heard that Windows and Unix have different "New Line" handling (LF / CR) - that could be related to the effect. There is a bug BUG #1461 with pg_restore but this seems to be different. I could provide the password in the command line directly but there is no '-pw' parameter or something similar for psql. I tried the recommendation "Notes to Windows Users" >cmd.exe /c chcp 1252 but this did not change the effect. Any ideas what I could do to get the dump into the database? A little help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance Gregor Remark 1: The original Linux based 7.4 database is still running and available - Maybe I have to work with some kind of binary backup instead. Remark 2: The postgreSQL database runs absolutly stable ( as a php backend) on Linux for more than 2 years - it is a wonderful piece of software. ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
