Re: Examining very large dumps

From: Tino Schwarze <postgresql(at)tisc(dot)de>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Examining very large dumps
Date: 2008-04-16 09:52:45
Message-ID: 20080416095245.GC31097@easy2.in-chemnitz.de
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:35:26PM +0300, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Hi, i just started the process of migrating from 7.4 to 8.3.1.
> On restoring, apart from the easily explainable ERRORs (both in DDL, COPY), i got some ugly ERRORs
> denoting foreign key constraint violations.
> Since the dump is 35 Gbytes, i'd like your advice for examining, editing, extracting portions of large dumps,
> in order to find the cause of the problem. vim (linux), vi (FreeBSD) or any other unix editor i tried, could not handle the
> volume.

Do you have a plain text dump or a compressed archive? Try using less
for a first view, then extract things with grep or alter with sed.

HTH,

Tino.

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