Re: Transfer db from one port to another

On 23 December 2015 at 11:36, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 12/23/2015 2:25 AM, Killian Driscoll wrote:
>
> Sorry, forgot to add: once I get the warning that the Pg_dump can't be
> found there is then a password prompt; I tried the db password and the pc
> password but both fail:
>
> Password:
> pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "irll_project" failed:
> FATAL: p
> assword authentication failed for user "killian"
>
>
> note that databases don't have passwords, database USERS have passwords.
> 'killian' probably doesn't have a database user, and since you didn't
> specify a user, it defaulted to your system username (expecting that user
> to have been created in postgres, and wanting that probably non-existant
> postgres users passsword)
>
> so, ok, try the command with -U postgres, as
>
> *pg_dump -Fc -p 5432 **-U postgres **irll_project | pg_restore -U
> postgres -p 5532*
>
> OK - I did the dir and it shows that the dump and restore.exe are there,
but running the above gives the below errors

09/06/2014 08:35 381,952 pg_dump.exe

09/06/2014 08:35 180,224 pg_restore.exe

C:\Users\killian>path "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin";%path%

C:\Users\killian>pg_dump -Fc -p 5432 -U postgres irll_project | pg_restore
-U po
stgres -p 5532
ccoulould not findd a n "pg_restore" to executeot find a "pg_dump" to
execute

pg_restore: [archiver] did not find magic string in file header
pg_dump: [custom archiver] could not write to output file: Invalid argument

>
> if/when it prompts for a password, thats the password of the 'postgres'
> database user, as configured in the postgres servers.
>
> note it will prompt for the password a couple times, once for postgres on
> port 5432, and again for postgres on port 5532, at least if both database
> services are configured to require passwords for local connections.
>
>
> --
> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
>
>