Re: Potentially serious migration issue from 7.1.3 to 7.2

Hello,

O.k. that makes sense. I will take take out the OID and see what
happens. The most important is the blobs
as this is a database for a paperless office... I will report back my
findings.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>OK, I think I know. There are certain pg_dump format combinations that
>can't be used together. I don't see your combination in the pg_dump.c
>failure test routines, but you may have found a new one.
>
>You are asking for oid's, custom output format, and blobs. Is it
>possible that combination is broken in 7.1? Can you try a small test
>with fewer options.
>
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>Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>> We are experiencing some very strange behavior with a restore that we
>>are trying to do. The command we are using to do the backup is:
>>
>> /bin/su - larry -c \"/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump $dbname
>>--superuser=larry -o --format=c -b -f /backups/$dbname.`date +%a`.tar.gz
>>
>> The backups run, we appear unable to restore them. The command we are
>>using to try and restore the information is:
>>
>>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_restore -d dominion dominion.Fri.tar
>>
>>When we run pg_restore we get the following -- thoughts???:
>>
>> DEBUG: connection: host=[local] user=postgres database=dominion
>>DEBUG: InitPostgres
>>DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: query: select getdatabaseencoding()
>>DEBUG: ProcessQuery
>>DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: query: SELECT version()
>>DEBUG: ProcessQuery
>>DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: query: select usesuper from pg_user where usename = 'postgres'
>>DEBUG: ProcessQuery
>>DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: query: --
>>-- Selected TOC Entries:
>>--
>>--
>>-- TOC Entry ID 2 (OID 0)
>>--
>>-- Name: Max OID Type: <Init> Owner:
>>-- Data Pos: 0 (Length 0)
>>--
>>
>>CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE pgdump_oid (dummy int4);
>>DEBUG: ProcessUtility: --
>>-- Selected TOC Entries:
>>--
>>--
>>-- TOC Entry ID 2 (OID 0)
>>--
>>-- Name: Max OID Type: <Init> Owner:
>>-- Data Pos: 0 (Length 0)
>>--
>>
>>CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE pgdump_oid (dummy int4);
>>DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
>>DEBUG: query:
>>COPY pgdump_oid WITH OIDS FROM stdin;
>>DEBUG: ProcessUtility:
>>COPY pgdump_oid WITH OIDS FROM stdin;
>>pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
>>DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand
>>pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
>>pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
>>DEBUG: proc_exit(0)
>>DEBUG: shmem_exit(0)
>>DEBUG: exit(0)
>>
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