Re: [HACKERS] How to...?

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-09T00:28:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> 
> Bruce...
> 
> 	Did I miss something here?  I just looked through the migration
> file for 6.2.1->6.3, and it doesn't seem to say, but how do you dump
> the data from a v6.2.1 database and then reload it to a v6.3 one?
> 
> 	Using v6.2.1's pg_dump/pg_dumpall, I did:
> 
> pg_dumpall -o > db.dump

Yes.

> 
> 	That worked.
> 
> 	Then, I installed v6.3, and using its psql, I did:
> 
> psql -e < db.dump
> 
> 	That failed miserably.

OK.

> 
> 	First thing that failed was building the new pg_user...so I cut
> out that and did it manually using createuser...
> 
> 	Then, using what was left, I did:
> 
> psql -e < db.dump 
> 
> 	Again.  Failed misearbly, with the following coming from the 'copy
> to <relname> from stdin;' section:
> 
> 344984  johnb   xgSldZdYEgIWo           clio.trends.ca  n       \N

Check what is in the file around this line.  It has existed the COPY for
some reason, and the \N is triggering the \? output.


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