Re: pg_restore - hangs or check on progress

OK

1. I found the -v option which I presume will show progress
2. I realised that I actually had to do a CREATE DATABASE for testdb before doing the restore.

The restore completed very quickly but I got the following errors - this is a postgis database

pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 4797; 0 31549 TABLE DATA a dmcntry_gl3m0ahcmp__st cor
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed for table "admcntry_gl3m0ahcmp__st" : ERROR: ESRI: error getting spatial references for srid = 13:
CONTEXT: COPY admcntry_gl3m0ahcmp__st, line 1, column shape: "AA0400006400 0000080010000D00000092120000010000008DAC92EEF4C7B40D92FBFBC88BCAA511DDFDBEB 0E103DCBDCEE0..."
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 4787; 0 30856 TABLE DATA b igash_st cor
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed for table "bigash_st": ERROR: ESRI : error getting spatial references for srid = 31:
CONTEXT: COPY bigash_st, line 1, column shape: "910300005C000000080118001F 000000B90D00000100000092C4F6A0AB199CE3C0DA931EB4BEC79101B59E92B001B4F8E512. .."
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 4789; 0 30997 TABLE DATA bigeuhtpoly_st cor
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed for table "bigeuhtpoly_st": ERROR: ESRI: error getting spatial references for srid = 32:
CONTEXT: COPY bigeuhtpoly_st, line 1, column shape: "D0B84600D92D09000800100020000000B8E2B5040100000091B8F6F2D61B9DBBCE96BF1EE8D9E702BF9AAA03C7A0E508A893..."
WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 3
-bash-4.1$

Anybody know what is happening here?

Austen

-----Original Message-----
From: Birchall, Austen
Sent: 16 April 2013 10:58
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pg_restore - hangs or check on progress

8.4.13 on Red Hat 6

I am doing a backup/restore test of a 'quite large' database

I ran the following backup

pg_dump -Fc testdb -U postgres > /var/lib/pgsql/backups/pg_testdb_backups/testdb_dev_backup$date_of_backup

then I connected to postgres db and did
drop dbtest

I then attempted to do a restore:
pg_restore -d testdb -j testdb_dev_backup201304141900

starting yesterday afternoon but then I came in this morning it is still running and as far as I can tell no data or Linux files have been written
1. Is pg_restore hanging and/or have I done something wrong?
2. Is there a way to check on the progress (% completed) for the pg_restore procedure?
Thanks

Austen Birchall
Senior DBA
Met Office