Re: Dump/restore with bad data and large objects

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "John T(dot) Dow" <john(at)johntdow(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dump/restore with bad data and large objects
Date: 2008-08-25 16:14:41
Message-ID: 1436.1219680881@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"John T. Dow" <john(at)johntdow(dot)com> writes:
> If you dump in plain text format, you can at least inspect the dumped
> data and fix it manually or with iconv. But the plain text
> format doesn't support large objects (again, not nice).

It does in 8.1 and later ...

> Also, neither of these methods gets information such as the roles,

Use pg_dumpall.

regards, tom lane

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