Re: problem with backup and restore (probaly stupit newb thing)

I am not running version 8 (I did try this on the linux box as well, but the
version I documented was the server is linux and the client is XP).

I ran it from PG admin in both cases, maybe I need to just run from the
command line on the linux box (this is fine as long as I can backup the file
and restore it if need be). I did the dump and restore from the PGadminIII
program so maybe the data base is not (UTF-8). I am new to this so I do not
know how to determine and set the types so they match up.
I did a create database and am running a .net app to read the data from
MSSQL and add it to Postgres.

If anyone know a quick to determine this and what the syntax mods are for
the dump and restore I would be very happy, if not I can play around. Thanks
so much for all the help, maybe I should load version 8 (I was not sure
there were rpms for fedora 3 that worked, I tried to load it and was
obviously not doing it correctly).

Joel Fradkin

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:17 PM
To: Richard Huxton
Cc: Joel Fradkin; pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] problem with backup and restore (probaly stupit newb
thing)

Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
> Joel Fradkin wrote:
>> ServerVersion: 07.03.0200 PostgreSQL 7.4.6 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu,
>> compiled by GCC i386-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2

> OK - let's start here. The syntax here is fine, I just tested it on an
> 8.0 database. Are you sure the DB you are restoring to is version 8?

Looks to me like he's trying to use 8.0 pg_dump/pg_restore to reload
into a 7.4 server. This definitely won't work without specifying
--disable-dollar-quoting to pg_dump; and if you care about restoring
object ownership correctly, also --use-set-session-authorization.
I don't recall if there are any other gotchas.

The unicode issue I'm not sure about. Perhaps the original database was
SQL_ASCII encoding and so was allowed to contain byte sequences that
aren't legal unicode?

regards, tom lane