Questions tagged [pg-dump]

pg_dump is a utility for backing up a PostgreSQL database.

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Enforcing Foreign Key Constraint Over Table From pg_dump With --exclude-table-data

I'm currently working on dumping one of our customer's database in a way that allows us to create new databases from this customer's basic structure, but without bringing along their private data. So far, I've had success with pg_dump combined with…
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PostgresSQL dump file is breaking because of apostrophes and other unescaped chars?

I have a docker container running remotely that I am trying to dump the sql data from, like so: docker exec -t test_db pg_dumpall -c -U postgres > dump_`date +%d-%m-%Y"_"%H_%M_%S`.sql When I try to run this dump file locally using the command psql…
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PostgreSQL 9.4.11 How to include database ownership and extensions in pg_dump custom compressed dump files?

I used pg_dump -Fc ... to dump my database in a compressed format. The problem is when I use pg_restore --create -d [some_auxiliary_db] to get the database back. It was restoring it directly to [some_auxiliary_db] even though in pg_dump / pg_restore…
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How dump table with partitions to single file as one table?

I need to make a dump main table with tables-partitions in one file. Is it possible to do this with some commands in postgresql console or with pg_dump? Thanks.
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Running pg_dump from ShellExecuteEx()

When I attempt to execute pg_dump.exe with ShellExecuteEx(), it returns an exit code of 1 (failed), and I think I may be blind to a simple error I have made. Here is the command line that works at a command prompt: "C:\Program…
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pg_dump hangs when launched from Eclipse RCP application

My PostgreSQL is 9.3 I have an Eclipse RCP application that calls a method in Spring application that launches Python script that launches pg_dump command. pg_dump command works when launched from console the python script that calls the command…
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pg_dump: too many command-line arguments when calling from cmd

Im trying to make a backup in a folder C:\Users\Marko Petričević\Documents\Radni_sati_Backup\proba where "proba" is the name of backup file. My command looks like this: pg_dump -h 192.168.130.240 -p 5433 -U postgres -F c postgres > C:\Users\Marko…
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How to store a small piece of information in a file without messing with its content?

My question: How to store the current version of my software in a dump file generated by PostgreSQL? The reason for my question: I've developed a JAVA software using the PostgreSQL database. The software is installed locally on each user's…
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Get the dump of postgresql extension

1. Is it possible to get the dump of the Postgresql extension? I have an extension under development which hypothetically sits on a production server and a lot of scripts like ext_name--1.0.1--1.0.2.sql. Is there a way, how to get the final version…
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Postgresql server to server replication

Say I have two remote servers 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2. In both the servers I have postgresql database installed with the same databases. Now what I need is, whatever changes or alterations that are done to the database on server 10.0.0.1 should…
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Creating pg_dump file in OS terminal

I tried to find it out on google, but didn't worked well so I hope to find help here! :) I am trying to create a pg_dump file on mac osx but there is no \bin folder as needed in cmd on windows. My question is how to create the pg_dump file on mac…
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Upgrading from Postgres 7.4 to 9.4.1

I'm upgrading Postgres from ancient 7.4 to 9.4.1 and seeing some errors. On the old machine, I did: pg_dumpall | gzip > db_pg_bu.gz On the new machine, I did: gunzip -c db_pg_bu.gz | psql While restoring I got a number of errors which I don't…
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Why is pgdump only listing one of the three tables that I want data for?

I’m using Postgres 9.5 on Mac Sierra. I want to output data from three tables so I have done this pg_dump -U mydb --format plain --section data --column-inserts --file "t1.backup" --table “addresses” --table “table1” --table "table2" mydb The…
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Postgres pg_dump issue

Good Day, I've been trying to restore a dump file using the psql client and I'm getting this error: psql.bin:/home/user/Desktop/dump/dumpfile.sql:907: ERROR: more than one function named "pg_catalog.avg" CONTEXT: COPY pg_aggregate, line 1, column…
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Odoo's backing up database using pg_dump, Odoo's UI command being used

I've been studying how to use pg_dump and creating a batch file in order to backup the database of my PostgreSQL since the pgAgent is not appearing on the pgAdmin 3 that Odoo installed on my machine. We all know that there's a method in backing up…
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