Steve,

can you post the pg_dump command and options you've used?

-Mark

On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Steve Thomas wrote:

> I need help! I'm using pg_dump to make a backup of our database,  
> and ...
> sensibly, I think ... wanted to confirm that we could restore from  
> this
> dump using pg_restore.
>
> (Actually, I've done this once without drama, when migrating from our
> dev server to our production server.)
>
> So, on our dev server, I followed the instructions for pg_restore, but
> cannot get it to work (and thus now have no dev database!)
>
> I've gone right back to square one and reinstalled postgresql. Then:
>
> * ran initdb -- no problem
>
> * ran
>
> createuser -U postgres -d -A -P dspace ; createdb -U dspace -E  
> UNICODE dspace
>
> as per instructions -- no problem.
>
> * ran pg_restore to restore data:
>
> pg_restore -C  -U dspace 200712061830
>
> This seemed to run OK, creating all the tables and adding data,  
> but ...
>
> * if I run
>
> $ psql dspace dspace
>
> I get
>
> dspace=> select * from item;
> ERROR:  relation "item" does not exist
>
> -- ie apparently there's no data.
>
>
> So, can anyone help with where I'm going wrong? Right now I have no  
> dev server so I'm in deep ...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> -- 
>
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