Re: initdb failure (was Re: [GENERAL] sequence's plpgsql)

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Oliver Elphick writes:
>
> > + <para>
> > + With a large dump, it may be difficult to identify where any errors are
> > + occurring. You may use the -e option to psql to print the SQL commands
> > + as they are run, so that it is easy to see precisely which commands are
> > + causing errors.
> > </para>
>
> That is just not true. If you use -f, it will tell you the line number of
> the command causing the error. Add the line number of the COPY error
> message, there you have it.

You are assuming it is easy to find what is on a specific line of the
dump file. I am not sure that is always easy for people with limited
Unix skills, or MSWin folks. I am not sure I would have thought to add
the file offset to find the problem COPY line. I guess I would have
eventually, but it wouldn't have been my first idea, and I might _not_
have used -f on the load, and if the load took an hour, I would have to
run it again to get that line number.

I can see the point that the table name is only really valuable when you
are loading a dump, and not valuabvle when you are just doing a copy.
However, copy is used enought in dumps that the exta word (the table
name) doesn't see to hurt.

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