Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4562E0038 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:35:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07888-03 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:35:31 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from smadev.internal.net (host3.dynacom.ondsl.gr [62.103.35.211]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282992E0030 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:35:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from smadev.internal.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smadev.internal.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3G9ZScc076367 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:35:28 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by smadev.internal.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m3G9ZR44076366 for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:35:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) From: Achilleas Mantzios Organization: Dynacom Tankers Mgmt To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Examining very large dumps Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:35:26 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804161235.27157.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200804/155 X-Sequence-Number: 28919 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. Thank you very much for any help. It's been the first day of the upgrade effort, and if i judge from the begining, the rest of the process will not be any easier. -- Achilleas Mantzios