On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:24:54 -0500, phil campaigne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:58:02 -0500, phil campaigne > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 14:28, phil campaigne wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi All, > >>>>I want to move my development database (7.2.3) to my production server > >>>>but the production server database has a different name. > >>>>What is the procedure for restoring a database pg_dump to another > >>>>machine with a different database name? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>pg_dump -h source_host source_dbname |psql -h dest_host dest_dbname > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Hi Scott, > >>Unfortunately my production machine is remote and I must transfer it via > >>FTP. How would that change your suggestion? > >> > >> > > > >You break it into two separate commands at the pipe, and use > >pg_restore to import it back in on the target box. > > > > > > > > > Lonni, > Before I try that, I should tell you that I used pg_dump to create the > backup. I read in the manual that psql client restores text files from > pg_dump. Should I still try pg_restore?
I believe that either will work for text file dumps. I've just always used pg_restore. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
