Re: pg_dump problems

On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:57:35 am Martín Marqués wrote:
> Now I'm getting weirder things. I did a pg_dump with -d option and the
> dump adds strange caracters:

As previously stated try using the 8.4 version of pg_dump to dump the 8.3
database. FYI in 8.4+ there is no -d option anymore, it has become --inserts to
reduce confusion with other commands where -d specified the database.

>
> ERROR: error de sintaxis en o cerca de «I»
> LÍNEA 1: I^NSERT INTO objeto_datos_rep VALUES (1172339, 387943, 'Wilde...
>
> Could it be binary corruption (pg_dump for example)?
>
> 2011/3/23 Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>:
> > 2011/3/23 Martín Marqués <martin(dot)marques(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> >> The scenario is like this. I tried today to dump a DB from our
> >> production server to load on our development server and got some
> >> errors, which I show below.
> >
> > Try using the pg_dump from the 8.4 install to create your dump file.
>
> I'll try this.
>
> > Also make sure your 8.3 installation doesn't have a non-default bytea
> > encoding setting (not sure when that setting was introduced, so there
> > may not even be such a setting).
>
> bytea has encoding? I thought it was plain binary data.

I think he was talking about bytea_output, which appeared in 9.0.

In any event you may want to verify that the encodings/locales for the two
databases are the same.

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Adrian Klaver
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