Re: Error Message Importing Into PostgreSQL (Using phpPgAdmin)

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:53 pm, Daniel Secomb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.4 with phpPgAdmin 2.4.2 and the ".sql" file I'm
> trying to import came from a dump from a server running PostgreSQL 7.0.3.
>
I'd suggest a phpPgAdmin upgrade 3.4 is the latest.

> I just got this error message trying to import the PostgreSQL database file
> into phpPgAdmin. The error message was as follows:
>
> Error -
> /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/databases/phpPgAdmin/db_readdump.php --
> Line: 33
> PostgreSQL said: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "\" at character 1
> Your query:
> \connect - postgres
> CREATE SEQUENCE "acls_bannerid_seq" start 1 increment 1 maxvalue 2147483647
> minvalue 1 cache 1 ;
>
This is designed to be sent to psql, which understands \connect.
phpPgadmin does not. I would suggest restoring using psql.

Regards

Russell Smith