Re: Dumping/Restoring with constraints?

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
To: Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dumping/Restoring with constraints?
Date: 2008-08-27 20:42:18
Message-ID: 48B5BC2A.5070104@wildenhain.de
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Hi,

Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> Hello. I have a database dump. With data and schema, which includes
> all the constraints and rules. But it seems the pg_dumpall command
> does not copy data in such a way that foreign keys are satisfied upon
> restoring. Because tables are inter-related, importing them keep
> giving errors and eventually no data is imported. Neither pg_dumpall
> nor pg_restore seems to have a "without constraints" or "delay
> constraints check" type command. What am I missing? Thanks for any
> advice.

Apart from disabling triggers temporarely, if you have enough
space in xlog, you could try to add BEGIN work; to the start
of the restore SQL and COMMIT; a the end.

Regards
Tino

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