Subject: Re: install sample database error
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From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:30:38 -0600
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/usr/bin/unzip some.zip

On 7/31/19 10:28 AM, Cao, Xiaowei wrote:
> Thanks, yes, I tried to install that sample database from ubuntu terminal. The file I downloaded for the sample database is a .zip file.
> The link in your email seems for windows version.
>
> What command should I use to achieve : "you only need to unzip the ZIP archive, that gives you a .tar file which you do NOT need to unpack."
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>
> Thanks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 11:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: install sample database error
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> Cao, Xiaowei schrieb am 31.07.2019 um 01:27:
>> I tried to download the postgresql sample database dvdrental to install on ubuntu.  This is a test environment.
>>
>> I got some errors while running the restore.sql in the downloaded file.
>>
>> Psql : restore.sql 1015: Error: could not open file $$PATH$$/3077.dat for reading: NO such file or directory.
>>
>> And the same error for all other dat files…
>>
>>
>> I guessed  first the permission issue, I tried to give the file directory the widest privilege like 777, but still has this error.
>>
>> Database and tables are created, but there are no rows in table.
>>
>> What could be wrong, what does $$PATH$$ mean?
> I assume you are referring to the sample database from:
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>    https://nam05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresqltutorial.com%2Fload-postgresql-sample-database%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cxicao%40seattleschools.org%7C91fbd502a1ac43b8617008d7157eaa0e%7Cd431d15860744832878351ea6f6dd227%7C0%7C1%7C637001506086033723&amp;sdata=tlSyRXLjr1UnKZWBUh2H7qCr8%2F1u9Fv17yEavKMKmSE%3D&amp;reserved=0
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> You can't restore that sample database using psql, you need to use pg_restore.
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> As described in the link above, you only need to unzip the ZIP archive, that gives you a .tar file which you do NOT need to unpack.
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> Assuming you did already create the dvdrental database, you can restore the backup using:
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>     pg_restore -U postgres -d dvdrental /path/to/dvdrental.tar
>
> Thomas
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