From: Jan-Peter Seifert <Jan-Peter.Seifert@gmx.de>
To: kevin kempter <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 'invalid command \N' during restore from pg_dump
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:20:55 +0200
Message-ID: <48F901B7.2050807@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8A008D3-9F09-49C6-B413-86C41EEB4969@kevinkempterllc.com>
References: <B8A008D3-9F09-49C6-B413-86C41EEB4969@kevinkempterllc.com>
Hello,
kevin kempter wrote:
> I'm trying to run a restore from a pg_dump and I get loads of these:
>
> invalid command \N
>
>
> I see lots of \N char's in the data for some of the tables (NULL's ?)
Are you using pgAdmin's SQL-editor for restoring by any chance? It
throws errors - especially if the \N (NULL) is at the beginning of the
line. Use psql for restoring or try with activating the option to use
INSERT instead of COPY commands for creating dumps with pg_dump.
Peter
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