Re: Database Import..Please Help Me

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: Premila Devi <premiladevi(dot)dayalan(at)agbnielsen(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database Import..Please Help Me
Date: 2009-06-16 15:47:24
Message-ID: 4A37BE8C.8030802@pinpointresearch.com
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Premila Devi wrote:
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> Good Day. I like to "Import Database" Using the
> postgresql-8.3.7-1-windows.
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> But, at here I did not see any "IMPORT DATABASE FEATURES"...
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The file you attached is empty. We need more info. As a starting point,
PostgreSQL dumps are created using pg_dump. The dump file can be a text
file designed to be read back using psql or in special formats designed
to be read by pg_restore. The text version is just a series of SQL
statements to restore the database. The various flags to pg_dump
determine the type of file created as well as things like schema-only,
data-only, specific tables, etc.

If the data is not a PostgreSQL created dump, you need to do some work
yourself. For example, if it is a CSV file you need a table with the
correct columns and you can use psql and the copy command with the csv
option.

Cheers,
Steve

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