Re: pg_dumpall - restoration problem- resolved

[Tony Bazeley]

Thanks Tom,

Dumped in Ubuntu 22.04_1 and restore attempted using Ubuntu 22.04.3
Editing the dump file to C.UTF8 didn't solve the problem.

The default for the database was en_AU.utf8 so I should have changed the 
collation to that, but it was one field in one table of superseded data, so I 
just erased the collation from that field.  

Still no idea on how it came to be there.

Cheers
Tony




On Sunday 7 April 2024 10:35:44 AM ACST Tom Lane wrote:
> Tony Bazeley  writes:
> > I've a problem with restoring a cluster created with pg_dump_all from 14.8
> > ( pg_dumpall >pgall.out and then psql -f pgall.out postgres).
> > ...
> > Attempting to restore to postgresql-16 results in errors
> > 
> > 2024-04-05 22:17:15.418 ACDT [6565] postgres@tonbaz ERROR:  collation
> > "pg_catalog.C.UTF-8" for encoding "UTF8" does not exist at character 366
> > 
> > I don't understand the class text COLLATE pg_catalog."C.UTF-8"  syntax,
> > but
> > select * from pg_collation shows a C.UTF8 but no C.UTF-8
> 
> I take it you are trying to restore onto a different OS platform with
> different locale naming conventions.  The easiest way to deal with it
> probably is to edit the dump file and change "C.UTF-8" to "C.UTF8"
> everywhere.  (Manually editing an 8G dump file might be no fun, but
> "sed" should make short work of it.)
> 
>   regards, tom lane

pg_dumpall - restoration problem

[Tony Bazeley]

I've a problem with restoring a cluster created with pg_dump_all from 14.8
( pg_dumpall >pgall.out and then psql -f pgall.out postgres).


pgall.out was recovered after a hardware failure on the hosting machine.


Attempting to restore to postgresql-16 results in errors
.
.
.
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172242: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172243: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172244: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172245: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172246: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172247: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172248: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5172249: error: invalid command \N 
psql:/tmp/pgall.out:5660594: error: out of memory
Which strikes me as a bit strange as it's a lightly loaded 32GB machine and a 
8.5GB dump 
file

On examination, all tables up to the table bug_line below appear to be read in 
and the 
error below appears in the log file


2024-04-05 22:17:15.418 ACDT [6565] postgres@tonbaz ERROR:  collation 
"pg_catalog.C.UTF-8" for encoding "UTF8" does not exist at character 366 

2024-04-05 22:17:15.418 ACDT [6565] postgres@tonbaz STATEMENT:  CREATE TABLE 
public.bug_line ( 
   id integer NOT NULL, 
   routenm character varying(254), 
   type character varying(254), 
   status character varying(254), 
   the_geom public.geometry(LineString,28354), 
   category text, 
   code text, 
   src text, 
   name text, 
   timing text, 
   refplan2015 integer, 
   comments text, 
   descrip text, 
   class text COLLATE pg_catalog."C.UTF-8" 
   );
 Thinking it might be something specific to postgres16 I installed a copy of 
the 
postgres14  (14.11) with failure in exactly the same way.

I don't understand the class text COLLATE pg_catalog."C.UTF-8"  syntax, but
select * from pg_collation shows a C.UTF8 but no C.UTF-8

Any help on how to proceed would be most appreciated

TIA 
Tony Bazeley