Re: incorrect restore from pg_dumpall

Yes, You were right, the problem was in the different libraries. I
worked around by installing the postgis version 1.3.6, reloading the
databases and subsequently uprading the postgis to 1.4.1.

Thank You for Your help

Tomas

p.s.: what is really a mystery that also the mentioned table with no
data were successfully reloaded, those tables did not contain spatial
data ... :)

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:28 -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> In order to restore a backup taken with pg_dumpall you'll want to
> ensure that the postgis installed in your new system is identical to
> the postgis in your old one. This is because the postgis function
> definitions will be looking for a particular postgis library name...
> the name of the library from your old database.
>
> You can hack around this, and have your cake and eat it too, to an
> extent, by symlinking the name of your old postgis to your new postgis
> library.
>
> P
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Tomas Lanczos <lanczos(at)t-zones(dot)sk> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to restore my databases stored by a pg_dumpall command in
> > the Karmic Koala box. The restore command is the following:
> >
> > psql -f /media/disk/.../backup -U postgres
> >
> > I have a PostsgreSQL 8.4 installed from repositories with postgis1.4.1.
> > I recognized that the tables with spatial geometries were not restored
> > but at the moment I am almost sure that it's caused by that the older
> > version of postgis in the stored database. What is a kind of mystery for
> > me that data in several tables were not restored, although the table
> > definitions did (it means that I got several tables without data)
> > althoug the data are there in the backup file (I checked physically). I
> > really don't understand what's going on there, I did the same many times
> > before, without any problem.
> >
> > Tomas
> >
> >
> >
> >
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