Re: Copying a database

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: rod(at)iol(dot)ie
Cc: Ron Gafron <rgafron(at)sbcglobal(dot)net>, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Copying a database
Date: 2010-08-13 09:55:01
Message-ID: 4C651675.9030506@lelarge.info
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Le 13/08/2010 11:38, Raymond O'Donnell a écrit :
> On 13/08/2010 06:32, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>
>> If you want a plain (SQL) dump, you have to tick the "Only schema"
>> checkbox before doing the dump. You don't have anything special to on
>> the restore step.
>
> It may be worth adding to this that you need to restore a plain dump via
> psql on the command line:
>
> psql -U <username> -f <sql file name> <database name>
>
> There has been confusion in the past with people trying to use the
> "Restore" command in pgAdmin with plain dumps - this uses pg_restore,
> which is intended for custom dumps only.
>

Oops, sure, you're right. I completely forgot that one.

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