Re: [ADMIN] Restore after using pg_dumpall

2013-07-31 Thread Samrat Revagade
pg_dumpall alldb.sql (store) and psql -f alldb.sql postgres (restore) is it necessary to drop existing objects (for example roles, ...) ? Any help is appreciated. I think it is not necessary. pg_dumpall supports dumping of the entire contents of a database cluster, It backs up each database in

[ADMIN] Restore after pg_dumpall

2013-07-31 Thread Asmus Reinhard
pg_dumpall alldb.sql (store) and psql -f alldb.sql postgres (restore) is it necessary to drop existing objects (for example roles, ...) ? Any help is appreciated. Last days i'm looking tot he options of pg_dumpall and I think the answer of my question is using option -c. Using this option

[ADMIN] Restore after using pg_dumpall

2013-07-29 Thread Asmus Reinhard
Hallo, between pg_dumpall alldb.sql (store) and psql -f alldb.sql postgres (restore) is it necessary to drop existing objects (for example roles, ...) ? Any help is appreciated.

Re: [ADMIN] Restore after using pg_dumpall

2013-07-29 Thread raghu ram
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Asmus Reinhard reinhard.as...@spdfraktion.de wrote: Hallo, ** ** between ** ** pg_dumpall alldb.sql (store) ** ** According above command,you are taking all databases dump in plain text format which are available in PostgreSQL cluster

Re: [ADMIN] Restore db with multi-tablespaces

2012-09-10 Thread Rural Hunter
Thanks! 于 2012/9/7 20:20, Sergey Konoplev 写道: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Rural Hunter ruralhun...@gmail.com wrote: base_20120902.tar.gz 27781958.tar.gz 27781959.tar.gz Now I want to restore it on another server with only one disk. I'm confused how to handle those tablespace files. Is

Re: [ADMIN] Restore db with multi-tablespaces

2012-09-07 Thread Sergey Konoplev
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Rural Hunter ruralhun...@gmail.com wrote: base_20120902.tar.gz 27781958.tar.gz 27781959.tar.gz Now I want to restore it on another server with only one disk. I'm confused how to handle those tablespace files. Is there a guideline or doc for this kind of

[ADMIN] Restore db with multi-tablespaces

2012-09-06 Thread Rural Hunter
Hi, I have a database with several tablespaces on different disks and backup-ed it with pg_basebackup. I have theses files: base_20120902.tar.gz 27781958.tar.gz 27781959.tar.gz Now I want to restore it on another server with only one disk. I'm confused how to handle those tablespace files.

[ADMIN] Restore db

2011-11-14 Thread Alexander Burbello
Hi folks, My server has a daily routine to import a dump file, however its taking long time to finish it. The original db has around 200 MB and takes 3~4 minutes to export (there are many blob fields), however it takes 4 hours to import using pg_restore. What can I do to tune this database to

[ADMIN] Restore db

2011-11-13 Thread Alexander Burbello
Hi folks, My server has a daily routine to import a dump file, however its taking long time to finish it. The original db has around 200 MB and takes 3~4 minutes to export (there are many blob fields), however it takes 4 hours to import using pg_restore. What can I do to tune this database to

Re: [ADMIN] RESTORE IS TO SLOW

2011-09-16 Thread marvin.deoliveira
I'll certainly follow your advices. The log_truncate_on_rotation parameter is set to on. I figured that saves a lot of disk space in this context. this is hurting the performance? - Marcos Oliveira And I still haven't found what I'm looking for... -- View this message in context:

Re: [ADMIN] RESTORE IS TO SLOW

2011-09-16 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:27 AM, marvin.deoliveira marvin.deolive...@gmail.com wrote: I'll certainly follow your advices. The log_truncate_on_rotation parameter is set to on. I figured that saves a lot of disk space in this context. this is hurting the performance? That option shouldn't have

Re: [ADMIN] RESTORE IS TO SLOW

2011-09-15 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:32 PM, marvin.deoliveira marvin.deolive...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'm restoring a database (only rows) that has some tables with 9 millions rows and others have even more. It's going to slow ( more than 24 hours by now ). I'm disabling the triggers but I guess if I

Re: [ADMIN] RESTORE IS TO SLOW

2011-09-15 Thread marvin.deoliveira
I'm using postgres 9.0.2 32 bits on Debian 5. The hardware is a pc with 2 GB RAM, with 2 sata disks. Well, that's what I have at the moment. The restore was started like: pg_restore -U postgres --data-only --disable-triggers -v /bck/dump file.sql -d database The pg_restore shows: pg_restore:

Re: [ADMIN] RESTORE IS TO SLOW

2011-09-15 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, marvin.deoliveira marvin.deolive...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using postgres 9.0.2 32 bits on Debian 5. The hardware is a pc with 2 GB RAM, with 2 sata disks. Well, that's what I have at the moment. The restore was started like:  pg_restore -U postgres --data-only

Re: [ADMIN] RESTORE IS TO SLOW

2011-09-15 Thread marvin.deoliveira
The dump file is in a different disk than a database. I need to have this restore finished ( it is about 80% done ) I will have to do it again, but with the changes. I will return the results to this post. - Marcos Oliveira And I still haven't found what I'm looking for... -- View this

[ADMIN] Restore database after drop command

2011-07-25 Thread Adarsh Sharma
Dear all, I am using Postgres-8.4.2 on Windows system. I have 2 databases in my postgres database ( globedatabase (21GB), urldatabase). I restore globedatabase from a .sql file on yesterday morning.I insert some new data in that database. In the evening, by mistake I issued a *drop database

Re: [ADMIN] Restore database after drop command

2011-07-25 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Jul 25, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Adarsh Sharma wrote: I restore globedatabase from a .sql file on yesterday morning.I insert some new data in that database. In the evening, by mistake I issued a drop database globedatabase command. Today morning, I restore again the same database from backup

Re: [ADMIN] Restore database after drop command

2011-07-25 Thread Adarsh Sharma
I go through the link, so it is impossible to get the data back. I have following files in my pg_xlog directory : 000100070091 000100070092 000100070093 000100070094 000100070095 000100070096 000100070097

Re: [ADMIN] Restore database after drop command

2011-07-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adarsh Sharma: I restore globedatabase from a .sql file on yesterday morning.I insert some new data in that database. In the evening, by mistake I issued a *drop database globedatabase* command. Today morning, I restore again the same database from backup (.sql) file. My .sql file have

Re: [ADMIN] Restore master from slave

2011-05-31 Thread Kevin Grittner
sonnix son...@gmail.com wrote: Can i make only base backup from temporary master to main master? You didn't say which version of PostgreSQL you're using, what OS it's running on, how you're managing the replication, or what exactly you did -- so it's hard to give very specific advice. That

[ADMIN] Restore Backup from Linux to Windows 2003

2011-04-01 Thread Anal Dey
Hi, I need a help on restoring backup which was taken under a linux machine with the below command pg_dump mydb /myhome/backup/mydb_backup.pgdump now I want to restore the backup (my_db_backup.pgdume) file under my windows machine can any one kindly explain me the process to restore this. I

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Backup from Linux to Windows 2003

2011-04-01 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Anal Dey anal@gmail.com wrote: I need a help on restoring backup which was taken under a linux machine with the below command pg_dump mydb /myhome/backup/mydb_backup.pgdump now I want to restore the backup (my_db_backup.pgdume) file under my windows

Re: [ADMIN] restore database files

2010-12-24 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2010-12-14, gosta100 stathisgot...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I have a copy of the data folder of a Windows postgres installation. Is it possible to restore the databases contained in there to another postgres server? yes, you'll need to correct the permissions on the files

[ADMIN] restore database files

2010-12-15 Thread gosta100
Hello everyone, I have a copy of the data folder of a Windows postgres installation. Is it possible to restore the databases contained in there to another postgres server? Thank you. -- View this message in context:

Re: [ADMIN] restore database files

2010-12-15 Thread Frederiko Costa
Yes, it is. Have a look at pg_dump utility. The documentation contains plenty of examples. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM, gosta100 stathisgot...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello everyone, I have a copy of the data folder of a Windows postgres installation. Is it possible to restore the

[ADMIN] restore In parallel postgres 9

2010-12-07 Thread paulo matadr
Hi gurus, When I try to pg_restore -d teste -v -j 16 teste.dmp 2 teste.log I give error: pg_restore: opção inválida -- j Tente pg_restore --help para obter mais informação. How can using parallel resource in new postgres? Regards Paulo

Re: [ADMIN] restore In parallel postgres 9

2010-12-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
paulo matadr saddon...@yahoo.com.br wrote: When I try to pg_restore -d teste -v -j 16 teste.dmp 2 teste.log I give error What do you get from?: pg_restore --version -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

[ADMIN] restore dump sun solaris to linux

2010-12-02 Thread Luca Santaniello
Hi, I have problem to restore my dump. I have generated my dump from sun solaris platform and I want start restore on linux platform. My dump contains postgis and pgrouting tables. I create dump using this command: pg_dump my_db my_dump.dump I restore my dump using this command: createdb

Re: [ADMIN] restore dump sun solaris to linux

2010-12-02 Thread Gabriele Bartolini
Hi, Il 02/12/10 20:04, Luca Santaniello ha scritto: I have problem to restore my dump. I have generated my dump from sun solaris platform and I want start restore on linux platform. My dump contains postgis and pgrouting tables. Are you using the same versions of PostgreSQL and PostGIS or did

[ADMIN] Restore rather than rebuild index ?

2010-10-06 Thread A J
During restore of a database (from a full backup), the general practice is to rebuild the indexes. I think with pg_dump and pg_restore (or psql restore), the only option is to rebuild the indexes. Am I right or is it possible to backup indexes as well and restore them ? Just exploring, to

Re: [ADMIN] Restore rather than rebuild index ?

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
A J s5...@yahoo.com wrote: I think with pg_dump and pg_restore (or psql restore), the only option is to rebuild the indexes. Am I right or is it possible to backup indexes as well and restore them ? With pg_dump it is copying in rows by value, so indexes must then be built. If you use

[ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Dinesh Bhandary
Hi All, Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same? For example I am trying to restore from existing system, table1(col1) to table1(col2) and it is erroring out on the new column name even though it is a data only

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Dinesh Bhandary dbhand...@iii.com wrote: Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same? Restore to the old name and then rename the column? Access the backup file and change the COPY statement to the new column name? If

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Scott Whitney
There are a couple of ways. Assuming that it's the same database, and it's up and running, you could do this: Assuming: table foo (col1 text, col2 int); table bar (col2 text, col3 int); insert into bar (select * from foo); would stick everything from foo.col1 and foo.col2 into bar.col2

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Dinesh Bhandary
Awesome, this will work. It won't retain the column name in insert into statement. I was not sure if this will work with postgres 8.2.5 but it does. Thanks. Dinesh On 10/5/2010 11:15 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Dinesh Bhandarydbhand...@iii.com wrote: Is there an easy way to restore to a

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Craig James
On 10/5/10 11:08 AM, Dinesh Bhandary wrote: Hi All, Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same? For example I am trying to restore from existing system, table1(col1) to table1(col2) and it is erroring out on the new column

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-23 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Reading this thread confuses me a little bit. There is no need to backup a cluster in order to move it to another disk within the same machine. Stopping the Database, moving $PGDATA, adjusting scripts and routines if nessecary and firing up the whole thing would do fine. regards -Andreas

[ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-22 Thread a f
Good day all, I am fairly new with PQSQL and am slowly picking things up - I have added a new disk and would like to do two things: 1. Restore a backup to this new disk - /hda2/pgdata/ 2. Move a database from /hda1/pgdata to /hda2/pgdata/ Any help is most appreciated, thank you.

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Grittner
a f just1co...@yahoo.ca wrote: I have added a new disk and would like to do two things: 1. Restore a backup to this new disk - /hda2/pgdata/ 2. Move a database from /hda1/pgdata to /hda2/pgdata/ First I want to be clear about whether you want to restore and move entire database

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-22 Thread a f
kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; a f just1co...@yahoo.ca Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 12:52:59 PM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk? a f just1co...@yahoo.ca wrote: I have added a new disk and would like to do two things: 1. Restore a backup

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Grittner
a f just1co...@yahoo.ca wrote: No cluster here, it is just a stand alone db server. There's some terminology you've apparently not grasped yet -- when PostgreSQL is running, the instance of the server is referred to as a cluster. If you're running a PostgreSQL database server, you are

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-22 Thread a f
but #1 was focused on backing up MyDatabase that resides on /hda1/pgdata, and restore it as MyDatabase2 on /hda2/pgdata. Do you already have the backup you want to restore? If so, how was it made, exactly? Yes. I used pg_dump to make the backup.

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-22 Thread Kevin Grittner
a f just1co...@yahoo.ca wrote: but #1 was focused on backing up MyDatabase that resides on /hda1/pgdata, and restore it as MyDatabase2 on /hda2/pgdata. Do you already have the backup you want to restore? If so, how was it made, exactly? Yes. I used pg_dump to make the backup.

[ADMIN] Restore problem

2010-07-15 Thread Guy Wauters
Hi all, Today, I tried to recover a postgresql cluster (pitr). I think it went fine (although I'm not sure), but I got some warnings afterwards... 2010-07-15 23:01:48 CEST [22907]: [2-1] user=,db= LOG: starting archive recovery 2010-07-15 23:01:48 CEST [22907]: [3-1] user=,db= LOG:

Re: [ADMIN] Restore DataBase

2010-06-02 Thread Szymon Guz
2010/6/2 ALEXANDER JOSE aang...@hotmail.com psql coon I'm trying to restore a database that has 60 GB in size, where there is a table with 38 million records, has raised 18 million records when the restore process fails on a syntax error, the backup was made with a file. sql as the best way

Re: [ADMIN] Restore DataBase

2010-06-02 Thread Andreas Schmitz
hi, sounds like a plain text backup. your problem, I guess, will be some constraint issue. I suggest commenting out the constraints in the backup file before running the restore. regards andreas ALEXANDER JOSE wrote: psql coon I'm trying to restore a database that has 60 GB in size,

Re: [ADMIN] Restore DataBase

2010-06-02 Thread Eric McKeeth
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:26 PM, ALEXANDER JOSE aang...@hotmail.com wrote: psql coon I'm trying to restore a database that has 60 GB in size, where there is a table with 38 million records, has raised 18 million records when the restore process fails on a syntax error, the backup was made

[ADMIN] Restore DataBase

2010-06-01 Thread ALEXANDER JOSE
psql coon I'm trying to restore a database that has 60 GB in size, where there is a table with 38 million records, has raised 18 million records when the restore process fails on a syntax error, the backup was made with a file. sql as the best way I can do to restore?? Alexander Angel

[ADMIN] Restore database in postgres 8.4 linux

2010-05-19 Thread ALEXANDER JOSE
I have a question, I have postgres 8.2.5 on a windows server on another machine and I have suse linux enterprise 10 postgres 8.4, you perform a backup with pgadmin 1.10 to a database and restore the database in the version of postgres 8.4 gave me many errors that could not find some

[ADMIN] Restore data to an existing populated table

2010-04-08 Thread Renato Oliveira
Dear all, I would like to know if it is possible to restore data to a pre-populated db/table. I was reading the man pages for pg_dump and pg_restore. The limitations of pg_restore are detailed below. * When restoring data to a pre-existing table and the option... Does that mean the

Re: [ADMIN] Restore data to an existing populated table

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Renato Oliveira renato.olive...@grant.co.uk wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to restore data to a pre-populated db/table. Yes. Does that mean the table can exist and can be populated with data, pg_restore will append the data to the db/table without deleting/dropping the

Re: [ADMIN] Restore database from tablespace

2010-01-29 Thread Greg Spiegelberg
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: I'm still not sure I follow, but there's a technique which isn't worth much for backup proper, but can be a good way to repeatedly get to a consistent starting point for tests in some circumstances. Look at

Re: [ADMIN] Restore database from tablespace

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Grittner
dev.pho dev@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if I could restore the database from the location of the tablespace. It's not clear exactly what you want to do. Have you read through the documentation on backup and restore?: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/backup.html

Re: [ADMIN] Restore database from tablespace

2010-01-28 Thread Greg Spiegelberg
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote: dev.pho dev@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if I could restore the database from the location of the tablespace. It's not clear exactly what you want to do.  Have you read through the documentation on

Re: [ADMIN] Restore database from tablespace

2010-01-28 Thread Kevin Grittner
Greg Spiegelberg gspiegelb...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if this was the intent but it did provide me with what I thought was a good idea. * Snapshot a schema / tablespace / database to another schema / tablespace / database. The applications for this could be * an alternative to

[ADMIN] Restore database from tablespace

2010-01-27 Thread dev.pho
Hello, I was wondering if I could restore the database from the location of the tablespace. If yes, how can I do this. Thanks in advance, Dev.

Re: [ADMIN] Restore SQL_ASCII backup...

2009-12-02 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le mercredi 2 décembre 2009 à 07:34:09, Brian Myers a écrit : Hi all, I'm trying to restore an old backup (7.1.4) into a new PG database (8.4). There are errors with some of the RI and sequences, but those are easy to fix. The problem is that one table in the DB has TEXT fields in it

[ADMIN] Restore SQL_ASCII backup...

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Myers
Hi all, I'm trying to restore an old backup (7.1.4) into a new PG database (8.4). There are errors with some of the RI and sequences, but those are easy to fix. The problem is that one table in the DB has TEXT fields in it and these seem to be sensitive to the DB encoding. The default in the

[ADMIN] Restore a backup from 8.4 to 8.3

2009-10-01 Thread Felipe Pinheiro
I try to restore a backup from 8.4 to 8.3 version but I got a error. Is possible to do this? Thanks.. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] Restore Table Issue

2009-04-27 Thread samana srikanth
Hi All In postgres-sql, Can we do a dependent tables restore when i restore one table? (dependent tables means tables which are linked (foreign key references)) Can I get the dependent triggers of a table when i restore a table? Can I get the dependent functions of the trigger when i restore

Re: [ADMIN] restore a table in a database

2008-12-04 Thread val
--- On Wed, 3/12/08, Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ADMIN] restore a table in a database To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Date: Wednesday, 3 December, 2008, 7:21 PM How do I restore just a table to a database? I

Re: [ADMIN] restore a table in a database

2008-12-04 Thread Marc Fromm
: Re: [ADMIN] restore a table in a database --- On Wed, 3/12/08, Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ADMIN] restore a table in a database To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Date: Wednesday, 3 December, 2008, 7:21 PM How do I

[ADMIN] restore a table in a database

2008-12-03 Thread Marc Fromm
How do I restore just a table to a database? I was able to create a backup of the required table from a backup of the database as follows. I don't know how to properly restore the backed up table departments to the original sms database. create a new db createdb -U postgres smstest restore a

[ADMIN] restore failure

2008-11-17 Thread Anony Mous
I have a moderate size database under RH9 / pgsql 7.3 (I think... that's the PG_VERSION in the postgres user data directory.) Under 100 mb for the whole thing. I'm trying to move the DB to postgresql 8.3 under the current ubuntu in a 4-core, 4gb machine. postgresql appears to be installed and

Re: [ADMIN] restore failure

2008-11-17 Thread Tom Lane
Anony Mous [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a moderate size database under RH9 / pgsql 7.3 (I think... that's the PG_VERSION in the postgres user data directory.) Under 100 mb for the whole thing. I'm trying to move the DB to postgresql 8.3 under the current ubuntu in a 4-core, 4gb machine.

[ADMIN] Restore error

2008-08-06 Thread lena
Dear Support! I speak English not well, sorry. I use Postgresql 8.3.0 on Win32. So, when I try to restore into database, I have an error such as 2008-08-05 12:07:33 MSD ERROR: could not load library C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib/pldbgapi.dll: unknown error 126 2008-08-05 12:07:33 MSD

[ADMIN] restore balloons db size

2008-07-31 Thread Marc Fromm
Does anyone have some insight on why the db size is expanding with each restore? If I restore all the postgresql databases from pg_dumpall and use the -c to drop databases before restoring them the size of the base directory dramatically increases with each restore (193MB to 355MB to 624MB). If

Re: [ADMIN] restore balloons db size

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Lane
Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have some insight on why the db size is expanding with each restore? If I restore all the postgresql databases from pg_dumpall and use the -c to drop databases before restoring them the size of the base directory dramatically increases with

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup into a new schema

2008-06-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to restore a backup schema to another schema ? For instance I create a backup of a database called source with its public schema with pg_backup I want to restore this backup in a database called dest into a new

[ADMIN] Restore a backup into a new schema

2008-06-13 Thread timalou2
Hi, Is it possible to restore a backup schema to another schema ? For instance I create a backup of a database called source with its public schema with pg_backup I want to restore this backup in a database called dest into a new schema called public2 Thanks a lot for your reply, Thierry

Re: [ADMIN] restore postgres system database 8.1.11

2008-05-05 Thread Phillip Smith
On a newly created server I stupidly restored over the top of the postgres system database using the GUI...(postgresql n00b) and am wondering a couple of things. Firstly, if this database is overwritten, is it detrimental to the running of PostgreSQL? Secondly is it just a simple

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Database From data folder

2008-05-05 Thread Chander Ganesan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a backup of data folder of my old postgresql database on 7.54 now i want to restore my complete database from data folder in ver 8.1 I assume you mean you wish to upgrade your 7.4 installation of PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL 8.1 ? The short answer: You'll need

Re: [ADMIN] restore postgres system database 8.1.11

2008-05-05 Thread Patrick Roberts
To be more clear it was the 'postgres' database. Regards, Patrick -Original Message- From: Phillip Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 5 May 2008 4:22 PM To: Patrick Roberts; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [ADMIN] restore postgres system database 8.1.11 On a newly

[ADMIN] restore postgres system database 8.1.11

2008-05-04 Thread Patrick Roberts
Hi All, On a newly created server I stupidly restored over the top of the postgres system database using the GUI...(postgresql n00b) and am wondering a couple of things. Firstly, if this database is overwritten, is it detrimental to the running of PostgreSQL? Secondly is it just a

[ADMIN] Restore Database From data folder

2008-04-14 Thread yogesh
hi alli have a backup of data folder of my old  postgresql database on 7.54now i want to restore my complete database from data folder in ver 8.1so can any gurus give me the idea about itYogeshSenior Officer (System) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Data Folder Problem

2008-04-06 Thread Phillip Smith
i have restore my old data folder in pgsql but still there is a permission problem Can you give us any more info? Specific error messages? In general, permissions should be (I think): chown -R postgres:postgres /path/to/data find /path/to/data -type -d -print | xargs chmod 700

[ADMIN] Restore Data Folder Problem

2008-04-04 Thread yogesh
Hi all i have restore my old data folder in pgsqlbut still there is a permission problemSo how can i restore my complete data from the data folderYogesh -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by BanasDairy(Amul), and is believed to be clean.

[ADMIN] restore message . . . cascade

2008-03-25 Thread Marc Fromm
I am backing up my databases with pgdump -c command to prevent duplicate records during a restore. When I restore the database with this command: psql -U postgres infoserv /tmp/infoserv-03-25-2008_12-10 I get the message to use cascade to drop dependent objects. DROP TABLE ERROR:

[ADMIN] restore from pg_dumpall

2008-03-13 Thread Marc Fromm
When restoring from a pg_dumpall file, is it best to delete the contents of the data folder, run intitdb to recreate it, and then do the command psql -U postgres -f backupfile postgres? When I do the restore over top of what is in the data folder already, there are many errors reported. Thanks

[ADMIN] Restore dump into different databases/owners

2008-01-12 Thread Andreas Haumer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I must be blind or something but it seems I just can't figure out a working procedure to restore a PG dump in custom format (created with pg_dump -Fc) into several different PG databases with different owners (i.e. for testing purposes) I want

Re: [ADMIN] Restore dump into different databases/owners

2008-01-12 Thread Andreas Haumer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Just a short followup... Andreas Haumer schrieb: Hi! I must be blind or something but it seems I just can't figure out a working procedure to restore a PG dump in custom format (created with pg_dump -Fc) into several different PG

Re: [ADMIN] Restore dump into different databases/owners

2008-01-12 Thread Tom Lane
Andreas Haumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I now solved it by temporarily adding the superuser privilege to the roles in question. That should not be necessary, unless the dump contained objects that require superuser permission to create (such as C-language functions) --- in which case giving

Re: [ADMIN] Restore dump into different databases/owners

2008-01-12 Thread Andreas Haumer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tom! Thanks for your reply! Tom Lane schrieb: Andreas Haumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I now solved it by temporarily adding the superuser privilege to the roles in question. That should not be necessary, unless the dump contained objects

[ADMIN] RESTORE SCHEMA

2007-01-23 Thread Kranti
Hey Guys, This is my first email to list. Hope i will get the solution quickly. I am working on postgresql 8.1 I have a DB, with mre than 4 schemas. I want to take backup of one of the schema and restore the same schema into another DB .ofcourse schema names are same. I am able to take

Re: [ADMIN] RESTORE SCHEMA

2007-01-23 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
On 1/23/07, Kranti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, This is my first email to list. Hope i will get the solution quickly. Hi, please use pg_dump -n option to select schema. Read manual pages of pg_dump.I am not sure how to do it in pgadminIII all said it is doable. regds malah. I am

[ADMIN] Restore and Recover Database

2006-07-25 Thread Alexander Burbello
Sorry insist in this question, but did someone try to restore and recover the database, and check if no data is lost?? I tryed to do some steps following the Postgres documentation, but ... I couldn't recover. Anybody has some tips or suggestion? Thanks in advance. I followed the steps

Re: [ADMIN] Restore and Recover Database

2006-07-25 Thread Tom Arthurs
Did you have your archive_command configured before you started this test (before starting the db?)... also did the tx_logs actually get saved? It looks to me that you don't have any valid archives. Also somewhat suspicious that it's starting with serial 1 for the transaction log -- which

[ADMIN] Restore database

2006-07-15 Thread Alexander Burbello
I need to test and create a procedure to restore databases. I followed the steps based on the site, but I couldn't finish succesfully. I did: 1. Put the database on Backup Mode and copy datafiles. /pg/bin/psql cresoldev -c SELECT pg_start_backup('/pg/backup/'); tar -cvf

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Database

2006-07-14 Thread Alexander Burbello
Yes! I followed exactly that page to do. Thanks Scott Marlowe escreveu: On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:04, Alexander Burbello wrote: Ok! Its a good tool, but for Production Database I think it is not recommended. Only using pg_dump for the second backup plain. Suppose that you backed up at

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Database

2006-07-13 Thread Alexander Burbello
Ok! Its a good tool, but for Production Database I think it is not recommended. Only using pg_dump for the second backup plain. Suppose that you backed up at 6:00am and at 9am happened a crash on the server. In this case, I would lost data between that time, 3 hours of information. For

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Database

2006-07-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:04, Alexander Burbello wrote: Ok! Its a good tool, but for Production Database I think it is not recommended. Only using pg_dump for the second backup plain. Suppose that you backed up at 6:00am and at 9am happened a crash on the server. In this case, I would lost

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Database

2006-07-12 Thread Aaron Bono
On 7/11/06, Burbello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to test and create a procedure to restoredatabases.Why not just use pg_dump?See http://manual.intl.indoglobal.com/ch06s07.html - it's really easy. This is how we copy from production to testing and development and how we do nightly backups.

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-25 Thread Jim Nasby
On May 24, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Todd A. Cook wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Todd A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have found that increasing maintenance_work_mem can decrease index build speed on large tables: You should probably re-measure when 8.2 comes out; we've fixed a number of performance

[ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread Ruairi
Hi, I'm currently restoring a fairly large DB from a pg_dump and it's taking about 12 hours to finish. The main part of this time is spent creating indexes. Is there anyway I can speed up the restore process, or do i just have to wait? I'm using postgres 8.1.3 on freebsd and the pg_dump is

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread Tom Lane
Ruairi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently restoring a fairly large DB from a pg_dump and it's taking about 12 hours to finish. The main part of this time is spent creating indexes. Is there anyway I can speed up the restore process, or do i just have to wait? There's not much you can

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time... I have found that the following steps have increased the speed of my restores: 1. dropdb DBNAME 2. createdb DBANME 3. Increase maintenance_work_mem as Tom mentioned. I do this at restore/runtime 4. Increase work_mem as Tom mentioned

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 13:56, mcelroy, tim wrote: I have found that the following steps have increased the speed of my restores: 1. dropdb DBNAME 2. createdb DBANME 3. Increase maintenance_work_mem as Tom mentioned. I do this at restore/runtime 4. Increase work_mem as Tom mentioned. I do

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread Tom Lane
Todd A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have found that increasing maintenance_work_mem can decrease index build speed on large tables: You should probably re-measure when 8.2 comes out; we've fixed a number of performance issues in the sorting code that might cause that.

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread Todd A. Cook
Tom Lane wrote: Todd A. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have found that increasing maintenance_work_mem can decrease index build speed on large tables: You should probably re-measure when 8.2 comes out; we've fixed a number of performance issues in the sorting code that might cause that.

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread Naomi Walker
I would typically drop the indicies before taking the dump, and recreate in the new instance. I know the loads go alot faster that way. Perhaps the index creation would be the same. Tom Lane wrote: Ruairi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently restoring a fairly large DB from a pg_dump and

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