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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 14:13:34 -0400
From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
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To: Jie Liang <jie@stbernard.com>
Cc: 'Bruce Momjian' <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>,
	"'admin@postgresql.org'" <admin@postgresql.org>,
	"'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore cannot restore function
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Jie Liang wrote:
> 
> Oops,my OS is FreeBSD4.3 PostgreSQL7.2

I cannot see such an error message in the pg_restore sources at all. Are
you sure to use the right versions together?


Jan

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jie Liang
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jie Liang
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 1:46 PM
> To: 'Jan Wieck'
> Cc: 'Bruce Momjian'; 'admin@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'
> Subject: RE: [SQL] pg_restore cannot restore function
> 
> No any error msg in the logfile, I didn't see any create function statement
> in my logfile which I enabled the query log.
> This function is written in PL/pgSQL which is enabled in target db,
> If I pg_dump the schema into a plain text file, I can see its defination
> there, I can easily copy & paste (restore) it into mydb2.
> however, I failed to restore it by using flag -P with compressed file.
> I also tried to use
> su postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_restore --function=myfunction
> --dbname=mydb2 dbf"
> error msg
> pg_restore: [archiver] could not open input file: No such file or directory
> 
> weird???
> 
> I use
> pg_restore -Rxt mytable -d mydb2 dbf
> have no such a problem, it works.
> 
> Is any syntax error??
> I am confused by documentation now!
> Is it a bug????
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jie Liang
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Wieck [mailto:JanWieck@Yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: Jie Liang
> Cc: 'Bruce Momjian'; 'admin@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'
> Subject: Re: [SQL] pg_restore cannot restore function
> 
> Jie Liang wrote:
> >
> > I use
> > pg_dump -Fc mydb > dbf
> > then I create another db by:
> > createdb mydb2
> > I use
> > pg_restore -P myfunction -d mydb2 dbf
> >
> > cannot restore myfunction into mydb2
> >
> > why??????
> 
> Good question. Is there any error message in the postmaster log?
> 
> If the function is written in a procedural language, is that language
> enabled in the target database? If the function is written in the SQL
> language, do all underlying objects like tables and views exist? If it's
> a C language function, does the shared object containing the function
> exist at the expected location?
> 
> Jan
> 
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