Hi again, Another mistake of mine ... :) The real problem was that I used a Windows based archiver (PowerArchiver) to unzip the gz file which - for some reasons ??? - chunked the long lines at aproximately every 16K. Using gunzip the problem oozed away. :)
Bye, -- Csaba -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Fuhr Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:05 PM To: Egy?d Csaba (Freemail) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Error restoring bytea from dump On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:51:31PM +0200, Együd Csaba wrote: > > the restoration of a dump stops at the line above. What line above? Are you referring to "Error restoring bytea" in the subject header? Is that the *exact* error message? > The dump was created with pgsql 7.3.2 and I need to pump it into a > 7.4.3 one. Should anybody tell me what the problem can be and how I > can solve it. Have extraneous newlines and/or carriage returns made it into the dump? That might result in "invalid input syntax for type bytea", which isn't the exact error you mentioned but might be what you meant. > (There are double apostophes [''] many times in the string - is it normal??? > Besides of the field separator [','] of course...) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/datatype-binary.html -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.778 / Virus Database: 525 - Release Date: 2004.10.15. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.778 / Virus Database: 525 - Release Date: 2004.10.15. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
