Question

I am trying to recover a database created in PostGIS and hosted here (under resources):

https://github.com/cecois/dossin_art_api

I am able to download the file and open it as a text file but I do not know the file type extension which I should use to import this file into MySQL or view it in a meaningful way. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

It’s a PostgreSQL archive file created by pg_dump, which doesn’t necessarily have any particular file type extension. Use pg_restore to restore the file to a PostreSQL database. You will need to install PostgreSQL and PostGIS, if you haven’t already done.

First create an empty database:

CREATE DATABASE altartlas;

Then connect to this database, and spatially enable it (requires PostGIS to be installed):

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;

Now from the system console, restore the file to the database:

pg_restore -U postgres -O -d altartlas altartlas_db

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Realistically, it would probably be simpler to request the original author for the data in a simpler format (CSV, Shapefile, etc.)