I have 2 questions. 1. What is the best way to back up a production box running Postgres nightly?
2. I thought the best way was to create a script that would use pg_dump to create a dump every night and then use restore if I need to. I did this but I am having a problem. Apparently there were a few Primary key Big Serial fields that had the name changed on them after they were created. The backup works fine but during the restore it fails because it thinks a relation is missing. Before restoring the database with the changed fields works fine, I just cannot get it to restore. Is there something in the background that Postgres is hanging on to after I renamed the fields that is preventing me from restoring? How can I work around this? Thank you Jason Tesser Software Development NMI 715-324-6900 x5273 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly