Re: [GENERAL] db not dumping properly, or at least not restoring

2009-10-18 Thread Brent Wood
Hi Kirk, How's it going? You can use pg_dump on the local host to access a db on a remote host, & as the output is just SQL, pipe this directly intp a psql command, thus replicating/migrating a database. One note, if you are doing this with a PostGIS db, I find it works better to create an em

Re: [GENERAL] db not dumping properly, or at least not restoring

2009-10-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Kirk Wythers wrote: > On Oct 16, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Kirk Wythers wrote: >> >>> Any ideas what the problem could be here? >> >> Use the pg_dump from the target (i.e. newer) pgsql.  I.e. if going >> from 8.

Re: [GENERAL] db not dumping properly, or at least not restoring

2009-10-16 Thread Kirk Wythers
On Oct 16, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Kirk Wythers wrote: Any ideas what the problem could be here? Use the pg_dump from the target (i.e. newer) pgsql. I.e. if going from 8.3.8 to 8.4.1, use the pg_dump that comes with 8.4.1 to dump the 8.

Re: [GENERAL] db not dumping properly, or at least not restoring

2009-10-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Kirk Wythers wrote: > Any ideas what the problem could be here? Use the pg_dump from the target (i.e. newer) pgsql. I.e. if going from 8.3.8 to 8.4.1, use the pg_dump that comes with 8.4.1 to dump the 8.3.8 database. I usually just do it like so: (First migra

Re: [GENERAL] db not dumping properly, or at least not restoring

2009-10-16 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/16 Kirk Wythers : > I am trying to move databases to another macine (and update from 8.2 to 8.4 > along the way). I first tried pg_dumpall, but I found that one of the data > bases did not restore and data, just an empty db with no tables. Since then > I have tried pg_dump with the followin