Re: pg_restore from split files

From: Steven Schlansker <steven(at)likeness(dot)com>
To: akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Igor Neyman <ineyman(at)perceptron(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore from split files
Date: 2013-04-22 19:57:26
Message-ID: 40052D5E-BD8D-4F81-BE37-63512A064329@likeness.com
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On Apr 22, 2013, at 12:47 PM, akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> pg_dump dbname -n schemaname -t table_name -Fc | split -b 500m -t table.dump

Since you split the files outside of the Postgres world, you have to combine them again. Roughly,

cat table.dump.* > table.dump.combined
pg_restore --usual-arguments table.dump.combined

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Igor Neyman <ineyman(at)perceptron(dot)com> wrote:
> How exactly did you create “split” dump?
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> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of akp geek
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 3:36 PM
> To: pgsql-general
> Subject: [GENERAL] pg_restore from split files
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> Hi All -
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> I have created a dump of a big table into 5 split files. What is the procedure to restore them using pg_dump.
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> I am getting the following error
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> pg_restore: [custom archiver] could not read from input file: end of file
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> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error
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> Appreciate your help.
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> Regards
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