Re: problem with pg_dump and pg_restore

The schema/data separation is higly recommended in the HowTo of tsearch2.
Thanks for your idea, I'l try it!

Ulrich

Grega Bremec wrote:
> ...and on Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0200, Fischer Ulrich used the keyboard:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I try to move my datas from a postresql 7.3.2 to a postgresql 7.4.1. The
>>database was dumped with:
>>
>> pg_dumpall -g GLOBALobjects.sql
>> pg_dump -s DATABASE > DBschema.sql
>> pg_dump -Fc DATABASE > DBdata.tar
>>
>
>
> Why the schema/data separation? One important freedom you get when combining
> schema and data in the dumps is you can alter it after you imported the data
> and thus avoid cyclic dependencies where existance of one foreign key mandates
> the existance of another, which refers to the first one.
>
> For now though, try eliminating all constraints from the schema dump and
> ALTERing the tables after you imported the data.
>
> Hope this helped,

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