Re: large dumps won't restore

Christian Fowler wrote:

>
> I'm running a large database ( data dir is ~9gigs ) on Fedora Core 2
> with 7.4.5-PGDG rpm's
>
> When using the -Fc dump method + pg_restore, I get:
>
> -bash-2.05b$ pg_restore -Fc -d foo -L backup.list
> /tmp/02\:43-postgresql_database-foo-backup
> pg_restore: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp: "52.233334"
> CONTEXT: COPY foo_data, line 42529, column mod_date: "52.233334"
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] error returned by PQendcopy
>
what's the column type before the column "mod_date"?
is it's a text type? if so, then have you used any kind of encoding for
your database?
what's it? and what's your PGCLIENCODING setting?

seems like a encoding problem I've ever met, but not sure.

regards

Laser