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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Examining very large dumps
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:23:40 -0400
Message-ID: <8622.1208359420@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804161235.27157.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
References: <200804161235.27157.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>

Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> 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,

Did you make the dump using 8.3's pg_dump?

IIRC 7.4 still didn't know about ordering the elements of a dump to
avoid forward-reference problems.

			regards, tom lane



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