On 27/09/2012 15:55, Dennis Gearon wrote: > <note to future> > To anyone reading this in the future, if you have problems importing a > plain text database export, it is usually impossible to do: > psql -d some_dbase -f the_backup.sql. I don't know why. What works is
I think that's a bit of an over-generalisation. :-) What errors do you get? > doing 'cd ./the_files_directory', going INTO psql command line, then > issuing '\i the_backup.sql', and it's really fast. 8 seconds for 128 > mbyte file. That's equivalent to passing the name of the file to psql via the -f option... assuming of course that you're in the same directory as the file; otherwise pass the full relative or absolute path. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland r...@iol.ie -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
