Re: [SQL] pg_dumpall + psql -e template1

Clayton Cottingham <drfrog(at)smartt(dot)com> writes:
> when i dump out all dbspg_dumpall>dbs.out and try to put into a new
> installation psql -e template1 <dbs.out it always fails when trying to
> copy the actual data
> usually producing errors that result in the \? listings and then a seq
> fault

There have been some reports that COPY in/out is not careful enough
about quoting control characters and so forth, so if you have text
fields containing control characters you might run into a problem
like the above.

As a quick workaround, try the pg_dump switch to dump data as INSERT
statements instead of with COPY. It'll be a lot slower to load :(
but if it avoids the problem then this is probably the correct
diagnosis.

If you can track down exactly what data is making COPY misbehave,
we'd have a better shot at fixing the bug.

regards, tom lane