From: Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
To: Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@gmail.com>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Dumping/Restoring with constraints?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:42:18 +0200
Message-ID: <48B5BC2A.5070104@wildenhain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e373d31e0808270619uba31c8eodc2c85662b85140a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e373d31e0808270619uba31c8eodc2c85662b85140a@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> Hello. I have a database dump. With data and schema, which includes
> all the constraints and rules. But it seems the pg_dumpall command
> does not copy data in such a way that foreign keys are satisfied upon
> restoring. Because tables are inter-related, importing them keep
> giving errors and eventually no data is imported. Neither pg_dumpall
> nor pg_restore seems to have a "without constraints" or "delay
> constraints check" type command. What am I missing? Thanks for any
> advice.
Apart from disabling triggers temporarely, if you have enough
space in xlog, you could try to add BEGIN work; to the start
of the restore SQL and COMMIT; a the end.
Regards
Tino
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