Re: BUG #13438: Restore using GUI client - Data Not Loading

Hi Tom,

I am using the GUI to try and 'restore' the 'user' table - which was backed up using the GUI 'backup' function. Is there a way to 'leave off all that decoration' as you suggest below - using the GUI? Unfortunately I don't know my way around in native environment. We do have 'PSQL Console' plugin - although I have not been successful trying to restore here. That is why we were relying on the GUI - which worked great for all our other tables.

Thank you very much for your help,

Cathi Soule

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 8:57 AM
To: Soule, Cathi (HQP)
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #13438: Restore using GUI client - Data Not Loading

cathi(dot)soule(at)roberthalf(dot)com writes:
> Hello, I am trying to backup / restore a table named 'user' using
> Postgres GUI/client. The restore does not load data. I suspect the
> issue may be the tablename 'user' (not my table). The backup msgs are
> listed below. My other successful restores had 2 additional msgs
> (pg_restore: processing data for table "skillc" pg_restore: setting
> owner and privileges for TABLE DATA skillc). Defaults were used on
> backup and restore. Does anyone know how to resolve? Thank you for any help!

> C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin\pg_restore.exe --host localhost
> --port
> 5432 --username "postgres" --dbname "d27qs7oej1f23" --no-password
> --data-only --table \"user\" --schema xyz1 --verbose "E:\20150611
> Mig32QA user4.backup"
> pg_restore: connecting to database for restore Process returned exit
> code 0.

I'm not real sure what backslashes do in the Windows command interpreter, but I bet the problem is that what pg_restore is getting as the argument of the --table switch is not just user but something with quote marks and/or backslashes in it, and that's not matching any table name it can find in the file so it doesn't restore anything.

Try leaving off all that decoration. "user" is not a keyword as far as the shell is concerned, so it doesn't really need quoting in this context.

regards, tom lane