I am using pgAdmin III at my work and postgresql at work and at the remote hosting server (webfaction). Through Putty I am creating a tunnel for pgAdmin to work with my local and my remote databases. I have a table which primary key is referenced by other tables’ keys (as a foreign key).
What is the best way to update that remote table with the values I have on my local table?
What I (unsuccessfully) try to do is ‘backup’ my local table and then try to ‘restore’ my remote table with that file. However, pgAdmin III gives me duplicate key value error.
pg_restore: connecting to database for restore
pg_restore: restoring data for table "main_city"
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 1972; 0 17110 TABLE DATA main_city user
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "main_city_pkey"
CONTEXT: COPY main_city, line 1: "1 London 20 30 4 1"
pg_restore: setting owner and privileges for TABLE DATA main_city
WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 1
Process returned exit code 1.
Shall I try another postgresql client? It is a pain if I try to remove all those references and try to update manually. Any help would be appreciated!
I know nothing about pgAdmin but how about adding the data from the file into a temporary table and the updating/inserting it into the original table depending on if rows exist or not?