On 2008-09-23 19:03, William Garrison wrote: > I have several .SQL files created from pg_dump, and I find that when I > feed them into psql that I get tons of foreign key errors because the > INSERT statements in the dump are not in the correct order. After > reading the docs, mailing lists, and googling, I see posts saying this > problem was fixed back in the 7.x days.
It is not fixed and is sometimes not possible to fix for data only dumps. > Since I did a data only dump, I think my only option is to create the > schema, manually disable all the constraints, then restore, then > re-enable the constraints. Much easier: 1. Create a schema with all constraints etc. 2. Dump this empty database with pg_dump with default options to empty_database.sql. 3. Split empty_database.sql file to 2 files - tables.sql and constraints.sql - all constraints will be at the end of empty_database.sql 4. drop database, create empty one, import tables.sql, import your data-only backup, import constraints.sql. Regards Tometzky -- ...although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were... Winnie the Pooh -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general