On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:08:07PM +0200, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Mike Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >How can we do this with PostGres? Other than backup and restore or
> >creating
> >SQL scripts I haven't been able to find another method. Some of these
> >tables may have over a million rows in them initially if we convert old
> >data.
>
> The most portable way is probably pg_dump as plaintext:
>
> pg_dump -Fp mydatabase >mydatabase.dump
>
> Then restore with:
>
> cat mydatabase.dump | psql mydatabase
This is better phrased:
psql -f mydadatabase.dump
If anything goes wrong, the error will contain the line number where
it went wrong.
Cheers,
D
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