Re: importing csv files into v7.2.1 on Solaris 8 x86

Hi Russell,

I didn't know anyone still ran Solaris x86. That used to be my
favourite OS until a very black day involving Sun. :( I've still got
the first CD of Solaris 9 INTEL OE which I'd downloaded before Sun
pulled the CD set from their download site. :)

For backing up a PostgreSQL database, you'll probably want to do a live
backup with the pg_dump command.

i.e.:

pg_dump foo_database > foo_database.sql

To restore the database, you can use the psql command:

psql foo_database < foo_database.sql > /dev/null

Each of these two commands has a bunch of command line switches you can
use for various things.

psql --help and pg_dump --help work fine.

Hopefully when you compiled PostgreSQL you did it using these
instructions:

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/installguides.php#solaris

As you're new to PostgreSQL, these two links will probably be valuable
for you:

http://www.postgresql.org/idocs (online version of the PostgreSQL 7.2.1
manual which is searchable, notes can be added, etc)

http://techdocs.postgresql.org (Lots of community contributed
documentation, guides, pointers, links, etc)

Hope this helps you out Russell.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Russell Aspinwall wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently compiled PostgreSQL v7.2.1 under Solaris 8 x86 (July 2001) in
> order to use it to hold the contents of Firewall logs. I have automated
> the Firewall log creation process and got them delivered to the intended
> database server as csv text files. I have compiled v7.2.1 (straight
> forward if you just include C, C++ support) but now need to write a
> program to accept the csv log file and enter the record information.
>
> Some newbie questions.
>
> Is their a utility which will read a database table definition and
> automatically import a csv format file expecting the fields to be in the
> correct order as the table? I remember that Progress (c 1994) can dump
> its database definition and database as text files which can then be
> read by another version of Progress to automatically recreate the
> database tables and populate the tables.
>
> Can anyone recommend the best way to perform a backup of PostgreSQL on
> Solaris.
> Can I just shutdown PostgreSQL and perform a ufsdump of the disk on
> which postgreSQL resides and restore onto a different disk or server as
> necessary?
>
> Regards
>
> Russell
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