Re: pg_restore peculiarities

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>
Cc: "Tim Penhey" <tim(at)penhey(dot)net>, "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore peculiarities
Date: 2004-09-18 21:39:42
Message-ID: 10270.1095543582@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at> writes:
> Tim Penhey wrote:
>> The only thing it asked in the installer was what languages to add to
>> the template, and I chose plpgsql only.

> I also thought so, but it's not the case. The installer puts all contrib
> modules into template1 that are included with the package and selected for
> install (at the module selection screen)... the default is to install all.

> I would rather like the installer to only install the dlls etc. and not
> throw everything into template1... perhaps add a feature request at
> pgFoundry?

Without taking a position on what the Windows installer ought to do ...
*whenever* you are restoring a pg_dump dump, you ought to do so into
an empty database cloned from template0. If the documentation doesn't
say that in enough places, suggest some more.

regards, tom lane

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