Re: [GENERAL] trouble migrating from 6.3.2 (IRIX) to 7.0.2 (Linux)

2000-11-23 Thread George Armhold
Tom Lane wrote: > > CREATE TABLE pfam (swiss_id varchar(16) NOT NULL, pfam_family > > varchar(32), comment varchar(80), sequence_data varchar(-5)); > > Hrm. varchar(-5) is pretty obviously broken :-(. I don't want to > guess what sort of aberration prompted that output from pg_dump > --- 6.3.2

Re: [GENERAL] trouble migrating from 6.3.2 (IRIX) to 7.0.2 (Linux)

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
George Armhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So, how about showing us the first 20 or so lines of db.backup? You >> can't really expect us to guess much from this amount of info ... > Fair enough question. > CREATE TABLE pfam (swiss_id varchar(16) NOT NULL, pfam_family > varchar(32), comment v

Re: [GENERAL] trouble migrating from 6.3.2 (IRIX) to 7.0.2 (Linux)

2000-11-22 Thread George Armhold
Tom Lane wrote: > So, how about showing us the first 20 or so lines of db.backup? You > can't really expect us to guess much from this amount of info ... Fair enough question. select datdba into table tmp_pg_shadow from pg_database where datname = 't emplate1'; delete from pg_shadow wher

Re: [GENERAL] trouble migrating from 6.3.2 (IRIX) to 7.0.2 (Linux)

2000-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
George Armhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> psql:/home/armhold/db.backup:13: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "-" >> psql:/home/armhold/db.backup:14: ERROR: Relation 'pfam' does not exist >> psql:/home/armhold/db.backup:20: invalid command \. So, how about showing us the first 20 or so l

[GENERAL] trouble migrating from 6.3.2 (IRIX) to 7.0.2 (Linux)

2000-11-22 Thread George Armhold
I'm trying to migrate from PostgreSQL 6.3.2 under IRIX to version 7.0.2 under RedHat 7.0. I've dumped my old database with "pg_dumpall -o > db.backup", but I'm having problems restoring this data to the new machine. I'm using "psql -d template1 < db.backup" to restore the data, but I'm getting