Re: initdb failure (was Re: [GENERAL] sequence's plpgsql)

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 23:18, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> If you are loading from pg_dump, you have lots of copy commands, so how
> do you know which COPY command caused the failure. You just have the
> line number of _a_ copy.

I would recommend using
psql -e
so that the sql commands are output too.

Here is a documentation patch:

Index: backup.sgml
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v
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diff -c -r2.30 backup.sgml
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--- backup.sgml 27 Sep 2003 05:45:04 -0000
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be read in by the <application>psql</application> program. The
general command form to restore a dump is
<synopsis>
! psql <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable> &lt; <replaceable class="parameter">infile</replaceable>
</synopsis>
where <replaceable class="parameter">infile</replaceable> is what
you used as <replaceable class="parameter">outfile</replaceable>
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be read in by the <application>psql</application> program. The
general command form to restore a dump is
<synopsis>
! psql -f <replaceable class="parameter">infile</replaceable> -d <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable>
</synopsis>
where <replaceable class="parameter">infile</replaceable> is what
you used as <replaceable class="parameter">outfile</replaceable>
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<application>psql</> supports similar options to <application>pg_dump</>
for controlling the database server location and the user name. See
its reference page for more information.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ With a large dump, it may be difficult to identify where any errors are
+ occurring. You may use the -e option to psql to print the SQL commands
+ as they are run, so that it is easy to see precisely which commands are
+ causing errors.
</para>

<para>

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