Re: Disabling triggers with psql (gforge 7.4 to 8.2 migration)

Two questions.

I could, of course, create a data-only dump (in fact I've already done
it). However, when restoring, I cannot use pg_restore since it's in
plain format, don't you? pg_restore only works with tar or compressed
formats, I think. I could restore data-only dump with psql, but then
I've to disable triggers and psql does not have an option in order to
disable them.

Second one. You say I could restore a compressed dumpfile into a
plaintext file. Is this possible? How? And after cleaning this plaintext
file, how do I restore it again into database without using psql since
pg_restore only accept tar or compressed file formats?

Thank you, Josh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez(at)vectorsf(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Disabling triggers with psql (gforge 7.4 to 8.2
migration)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:55:15 -0500

On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala wrote:
>
> Third one, and we haven't been able to fix it, is we cannot restore
> data dump via psql due to psql does not have an option to disable
> triggers. So, when restoring data, it fails. So... is there any way to
> disable in a psql session all triggers same way like with pg_restore
> --disable-triggers? Or can we convert plain text dump to be processed
> by pg_restore? Perhaps a table by table trigger disabling script?
>

How about:
1. restore your schema, with triggers, using a pg_dump
--schema-only ... ; pg_restore ...
2. Create a psql-loadable data-only dump using pg_dump --data-only
--disable-triggers --format=p ...
3. clean the data-only dump and restore

Or, you could do a full pg_dump -Fc ... of your database, then use
pg_restore to restore the compressed dumpfile into a plaintext file
(i.e. pg_restore [options] filename). Then run your cleanup on the
plaintext file, and reload.

Josh